Arizona republican., 1905-03-12

men do most of the muscular work they seldom equal or exceed the men in strength, any superiority, when it exists, being mainly shown in such passive forms of exertion as bearing burdens In civilization, even under the influence of careful athletic train ing, women are unable to compete muscuiarly with men.
 "The greater precocity of girls Is an other aspect of the biological factor in the sexual mental differences. It Is a physic as we'll as a physical fact There can now be no doubt that girl at, let us say, the age of fourteen. is on the average taller and heavier than a boy at the same age, though the degrees of this difference and the precise age at which it occurs vary with the individual and the race. Cor responding to this Is mental differ ence; in many, though not in all, branches of study the girl of fourteen is superior to the boy. quicker, more intelligent, gifted with a better mem- ory. Precocity, however, is a quality of dubious virtue. It is frequently found, indeed, in men of the highest genius, but, on the other hand, it is found among animals and among saw ages, and is here of no good augury.
 ''Yet another aspect of the biological factor is to be found in the bearing of heredity on this question. To judge by the statements that one sometimes sees, men and women might be two distinct species, separately propagated- Nothing is more certain than that men and women, on the average, inherit equally from both of their parents. There are, indeed, various laws of her edity which may seem to modify this statement, and notably the tendency whereby extremes of variation are more common in the male sex, but, on the whole, there can be no doubt that 1 the qualities of a man or of woman are a more or less varied mixture of those of both parents"
 When we turn to the psychological laboratory. where it is possible to car " on experiments under precisely identical conditions. the results are still the same. There are nearly al- ways differences between men and wo- men. but these differences are com plex and manifold; they do not always agree; they never show any general | piIing up of the advantages on the side of one sex or of the other In re- action time, in delicacy of sensory per- | ception, in accuracy of estimation and precision of movement, there are near ly always sexual differences. few that are fairly constant. many that differ at different ages, in various countries. or even in dierent groups of individuals. We cannot usually explain these diff ferences or attach any precise signifi- canoe to them.
 When We attempt to survey and sum up all the variegated facts which science and practical life are slowly accommodating with reference to the mental differences between men and women 1t will be seen that We reach two main conclusions. On the one hand there is a fundamental equality
 of sexes. It would certainly appear
 that women vary within a narrower range than men-that is to say. that
 the two extremes of genius and oi
 idiocy are both more likely to show
 themselves in men. But within the
 range in which nearly all of us move
 there are always many men who 1T
 mental respects can do what most
 women can do, many women who car
 do what most men can do. We are no
 justified in excluding whole sex ab-
 solutely from any field. On the othel
 hand. the mental diversity of men anC
 women is equally fundamental. It fl
 rooted in organization. The well in tentioned efforts of many pioneers il
 women's movements to treat men an' women as identical and. as it were to force women into masculine molds
 are both mischievous and useless , Women will always be different iron men, mentally as we'll as physically It is well for both sexes that it shoul be so It is owing to these difference that each sex can bring to the world work various aptitudes that the othe l lacks. It is owing to these difference
 also that men and women have thei f undying charm for each other, w l can not change them, and We need no wish to-