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the lower traits of character, the force in the one case being superior 

 strength combined with power of will, and, in the other, superior 

 beauty with the desire to fascinate. As these influences are gradually 

 losing their power of despotic sway, woman, in place of acting as the 

 slave, the toy, or the tyrant of man, is becoming not only his compan- 

 ion, but the custodian of the moral and religious interests of societv, 

 man looking at her as the natural critic and judge of the moral aspects 

 of his conduct. 



While the varying characteristics of the two sexes are thus seen to 

 be inherent and inevitable (the secondary sexual characters having 

 largely grown out of those which are primary and essential), it does 

 not follow that they are necessarily indicative of the " sphere " of each 

 for all time. While it is doubtless true, in a certain sense, that " that 

 which has been is that which shall be," nevertheless, change (in ac- 

 cordance with law) underlies the very idea of evolution, and as it has 

 been and is now, so it ever shall be, that the sphere of woman will be 

 determined by the kind and degree of development to which she shall 

 attain. Like man, she need know no other limitation ; but when we 

 look around upon the great industries of life, mining, engineering, 

 manufacturing, commerce, and the rest, and consider how little direct 

 agency woman has had in bringing them to their present stage of 

 progress, we are compelled to believe that she must not look toward 

 direct competition with man for the best unfolding of her powers, but , 

 rather, while continuing to supplement him, as he does her, in the varied 

 interests of their common life, that her future progress, as in the past, 

 will consist mainly in the development of a higher character of woman- 

 hood through the selection and consequent intension of those traits 

 peculiar to her own sex. 



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THE HEEMIT OF EED-COAT'S GREEN. 



By DANIEL H. TUKE, M. D., M. E. C. P. 



EVERYBODY remembers Mopes, the " slothful, unsavory, nasty 

 reversal of the laws of human nature" Dickens's famous char- 

 acter of "Tom Tiddler's Ground." The recent death of the original 

 of that sketch has attracted fresh notice to his strange mode of life. 

 I propose to consider the question of his insanity; and whether, if 

 insane, the mental disorder in this and similar cases calls for inter- 

 ference with the individual's liberty. 



Mr. James Lucas, the fourth child of an opulent London merchant, 

 was born in 1813 ; there were five children in all, of whom a brother 

 and sister survive. He had an aunt who, like himself, exhibited a 

 contempt for the ordinary decencies of civilized life, and an uncle who 



