New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-14

TIE FE AINI IS MaN AZ AID TIE MAscUILINSE
IN WOMAN. BY Charles Godfrey Leisi0-
l2rno. pp vii lss Funk * Wagnalls CO.
Suggestive certainly. but neither very logically
nor profoundly worked out. Is the theory winch
the late Charles Godfrey Leland propouncs IN
this book. work which. st is only fair 10 say
did not have the benefit Of his correction and
revision His philosophy. IL It may be so called
a % a speculative, rather than an inductive.
order. ana the relations between his various
ideas are not always clearly defined, which is the
more 20 be- regretted as they ere also not always
clearly obvious. It would be easy, accordingly
% dismiss The book with a few hippant COM
ments did not the ideas whether related or NOT
contain an appeal TO the Imagination whlch
may well prove stimulating to further invesuga-
ton by minds better equipped temperamentally
to sift and TO solve the problems which the au-
thor presents.
Briefly. he accepts the Investigations of Otto
Schron as establishing that there is no line of
demarcatiOn between the organic and inorganic
world that there is even life in crystals, and
no step In which mentality. though in lower
forms. does not manifest itself From this he
assumes that mental processes. wherever found,
are necessarily determined by physical charac-
teristics. and. observing that the female organs
exist in a more less rudimentary form in
men, and conversely, and that both men and
characteristics OF the opposite sex. he advances
the theory that in exact proportion to male de-
Velopments in woman. the female in man.
there is a corresponding masculine or feminine
degree OF mentality From our previous igno-
rance Of this dual nature OF the human mind we
have not consciously exercised control over that
part which is due 10 what the author calls the
alternate sex" IN each Of Il is only in
dreams and reveries that, relinQuishing control
over our conscious cerebratiOn. allow play to
the female mind in man or 10 the male mind in
woman. To this alternate sex" Mr.. Leland
believed were due many. Il not all. Of the phe-
nOmena OF the Imagination and Of the creative
action OF the mind. as well as OF what has Of
late years occupied much thought the Sub
liminal Self. the Inner Ne. the Hidden Soul I'm
conscious Cerebration and the like"
Great possibilities lie before the human race.
the author had convinced himself. in the devel-
opment OF these secondary mental faculties,
which, as he says. might be cultivated. for ex-
ample. ITO the imprOvisng OF poetry, as indeed.
often spontaneously occurs among Italians" He
suggests various methods:
But the great art OF all IS simply TO think ear
nestly and often that there is really within US
another mind, q second self. which has never been
recognized. and ever neglected and which,
herself, one who has been mortified and de-
feated is wont 20 do BY this repeated thought. the
shy fairy viii become familiar and, little by little,
a reality. IL VIII not be enough mechanically TO
think about it at long intervals. We should
muse and dream awake, and let the Idea melt into
our minds tin il becomes. as it were, ourself. Il
could do II you tried: kittles amt so hard TO
mend II you keep on