Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-01
WOMAN MENTAL
EQUAL Of MAN,
DOCTOR CLAIMS
Her Capabilities Underestimated
and Legislated gainst by the
Steiner Sex.
"ATLAS OF THE UMAN RACEn
Former Federal Hospital Physi-
clan, in Magazine Article, Asks
Standardization of Brains.

NEW YORK, Jan. 31.-"Standard-
ization of Brains; Are Women Infe-
rior Mentally to Men," is the title of
a paper by Rose Alexander Bowers,
NJ. D., formerly assistant physician in
the Government Hospital in Washing
ton, in the current number of The
New York Medical Journal. In it's
course, DR.. Alexander Bowers writes:
Several questions might be
raised First, why woman has not
shown as much progress as man.
since she has been living as long;
second, if woman's intellect compared
favorably with mans, why has she
not subjugated him in lieu of being
subjugated? To the first my answer
lis that man by nature is aggressively
active, while woman is only passively
active; yet it is possible for her to be
Quite as active in her passiveness as
Tor the man to be positive in his ag-
greSsivenesS. He has forged ahead
however, unhampered by womans
competition. appropriating unto him
self all available educational institu-
tons with their heavy endowments,
which are often the liberal gifts of
our moneyed women whose long suit
has been the higher education of men,
Her Privileges Limited.
Considering Woman's Intellectual
privations, her knowledge is indeed far
beyond her proportional educational
privileges, when one regards the few
unendowed, sparsely located womens
colleges or coeducational universities.
which are as a rule universal for men
only.
THE answer to the second question
is just as lucid as the first. Up to
the present time woman has not been
the maker of laws, but the maker of
man, which calling necessarily de-
manded the greater portion of her
time. vitality and ambition.
For physiological reasons, mater
nifty imposes a cessation from extra
mural engagements, which interval is
grievously felt upon her return to the
field of action again handicapped by
the offspring which demands her I'M
divided attention and multiplies her
burdens without compensation for her
labor or respite for her toll.
Woman Is Atlas of Race.
Since woman is the Atlas of the
human race it must be concurred in
by all that she should, for improved
eugenics, be the potential factor in
initiating, nurturing, maintaining and
perpetuating productivity of the
highest mental and moral character,
While this sacred duty and privileged
obligation is reposed with her, how
much more successfully could she dis
charge her manifold duties as moth
er, citizen and progenitor of the race
if provided with the proper equip
ment, which would include the right
to share with the father the same in
telleotual schools and information bu-
reaus which have been for genera
tons selfishly and unrighteously
treasured as sources for privileged
knowledge by the stronger sex.
NO race, sex or creed has a cor
ner on the divine right of thinking,
as our governmental constitution has
specifically stated that all are created
equal yet womans capabilities are
underestimate and legislated against
for reasons best known to the sterncr
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