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Parchappe makes the difference as 109"34 to 100, Broca ; Rudolph, and 

 Wagner, as 111 to 100 ; Huschke, as 112 to 100 ; Meyner, as 100 to 90. 

 That this difference in weight does not depend upon the relatively 

 smaller size of woman is shown by the statement of Parchappe, that 

 while the stature of woman is to that of man as 927 to 1,000, the rela- 

 tive weight of the brains of the two sexes is as 909 to 1,000. M. Le Bon 

 has found, on comparing the average weight of the brains of seventeen 

 men of about five feet in height with that of the brains of seventeen 

 women of corresponding size, a difference of one hundred and seventy- 

 two grammes (six and one quarter ounces) in favor of the masculine 

 brain. Diagrams of the feminine brains of different races show that 

 even in the most intelligent populations, as among contemporary 

 Parisians, the skulls of a notable proportion of women more nearly 

 approach the volume of the skulls of certain gorillas than that of the 

 better developed skulls of the male sex. 



Other differences between the brains of the two sexes relate to 

 the conformation. According to Broca, Wagner, and Huschke, and 

 Wight, of New York, the frontal lobes, the seat of the highest intel- 

 lectual faculties, are less developed in woman than in man. The occip- 

 ital lobes, the seat of the sentiments, are more voluminous in woman. 

 According to Professor Wagner, the brain of woman as a whole is 

 always in a more or less embryonic condition. Huschke says that 

 woman is only a child in growth, and belies her infantine type no more 

 by her brain than by the other parts of her body. Some anatomists 

 allege that the right side of the brain is superior in women and the 

 left side in men ; hence women pass to the left and men to the right. 

 I have observed that man performs certain motions, as those of striking 

 and buttoning the clothes, centrifugally, and woman centripetally 

 another sign of inferiority in woman. 



The differences in the relative prominence of the lobes of the brain 

 may explain why woman is more given to the life of the heart and 

 man to that of the mind, a point in which all authors are agreed. 



The question of the relative morality of the sexes has been debated 

 by thousands of authors. Without going over their ground, we will 

 endeavor to show what light has been cast upon it by recent facts in 

 demography. Women incontestably commit a smaller proportion of 

 crimes against persons than men. Quetelet suggests that they are 

 more restrained by shame and modesty, by their condition of depend- 

 ence, their more retired habits, and their physical weakness. When 

 they do thus offend, they are more apt to adopt poisoning, the weapon 

 of cowards. It is universally admitted, again, that woman is more 

 devout and more charitable than man. Her charity is, however, it 

 may be said, often narrow and intolerant, and exercised for the sake 

 of proselytisin. 



We now come to the consideration of the intellectual faculties. The 

 male is more intelligent than the female in all the superior species. 



