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joint subsistence. But to avoid enemies or to attack them 

 with success, to capture wild animals, or to fashion 

 weapons, requires the aid of the higher mental faculties, 

 namely, observation, reason, invention, or imagination. 

 These various faculties will thus have been continually 

 put to the test and selected during manhood ; they will, 

 moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same 

 period of life. Consequently, in accordance with the 

 principle often alluded to, we might expect that they 

 would at least tend to be transmitted chiefly to the male 

 offspring at the corresponding period of manhood. 



HOW WOMATST COULD BE MADE TO BEACH THE STAND- 

 ABD OF MAN. 



It must be borne in mind that the tenden- 

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cy m characters acquired by either sex late in 



life, to be transmitted to the same sex at the same age, 

 and of early acquired characters to be transmitted to both 

 sexes, are rules which, though general, do not always 

 hold. If they always held good, we might conclude (but 

 I here exceed my proper bounds) that the inherited ef- 

 fects of the early education of boys and girls would be 

 transmitted equally to both sexes ; so that the present 

 inequality in mental power between the sexes would not 

 be effaced by a similar course of early training ; nor can 

 it have been caused by their dissimilar early training. In 

 order that woman should reach the same standard as man, 

 she ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to energy and 

 perseverance, and to have her reason and imagination 

 exercised to the highest point ; and then she would prob- 

 ably transmit these qualities chiefly to her adult daugh- 

 ters. All women, however, could not be thus raised, un- 

 less during many generations those who excelled in the 



