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Concerning many of these relations we know that men and women do 

 not think alike, and that these differences are radical ones, and have 

 existed many years, and yet contimie to exist. Take the labor and 

 the ballot questions as the most widely known of the points of disa- 

 greement, which seem to have their origin in sexual mental attributes. 

 But, even upon these questions, we find many men and women think- 

 ing and acting alike. Yet these are the exception, and not the rule ; 

 which confirms my idea of the difference in the results reached by the 

 mental processes of the sexes : for surely the want of agreement must 

 be a radical one in which it is a rare exception for the two types of 

 mind to approach each other upon matters other than the organic 

 emotions. Keeping in view the accepted fact that the brain, as an 

 organ, or nerve-centre, is the seat of mental action, with which its 

 structure, either in its histological elements or its relative proportion 

 of parts, is more or less intimately connected, it seems reasonable to 

 refer these differences in the results of sexual mental processes to 

 structural rather than to any ephemeral cause. If we estimate the 

 sexual factor in brain-develoj^ment by the aggregate of results at- 

 tained by the sexes, the way is clearer. The known average excess 

 in weight in the male brain is the most probable coefficient of this 

 excess in results. The face of Nature has fairly been changed by 

 man's labor. The vast systems of railroads, of canals, of mountains 

 pierced by tunnels, of lines of telegraph and cables, the steamships, 

 the vast engines of war, the great emporiums of commerce, the re- 

 sults reached by masterly labors in science which underlie all these 

 grand results, and in which women have been the accessories rather 

 than the collaborators, prove that some factor, other than superior 

 strength of bone and muscle, has led to this vast excess in results 

 reached by man. These results represent brain-labor ; and to what 

 cause can we assign it, if not to this great development of the brain 

 of man over that of woman ? 



In the organic emotions, and in the play of those finer feelings 

 which form distinguishing mental traits of the sexes, we have the 

 same reason to seek for a physical basis. As these mental traits are 

 analyzed in the course of the paper, it will become more evident that 

 the brain in the sexes is an organ embraced structurally in the sexual 

 cycle. With this sexual factor existing in brain-structure, can woman 

 ever hoj^e, in entering the field of man's labor, to do his work in man's 

 way ? Will she write sermons, draw up a brief, or treat disease with 

 the same facts before her, in the way of man ? I do not believe I 

 show disrespect to the sex when I answer, No. Women in literature 

 have occupied a distinctive place. A book or an article in which the 

 sex of the writer cannot be detected, no matter how studiously con- 

 cealed, forms an event in literature. When woman labors either with 

 her hands or head, notwithstanding she reaches the same result as 

 man, she labors in her own way. All this, I believe, points not so 



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