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OP GENERATION. 



have usually seen the individual under a different aspect. But this vigor, being 

 due to the strong excitement of the Feelings, and not to any inherent strength 

 of Intellect, is only sustained during the persistence of the motive, and fails as 

 soon as this subsides. The feelings of Woman, being frequently called forth 

 by the occurrences she witnesses around her, are naturally more disinterested 

 than those of Man; his energy is more concentrated upon one object; and to this 

 his intellect is directed with an earnestness that too frequently either blunts 

 his feelings, or carries them along in the same channel, thus rendering them 

 selfish. The intuitive powers of Woman are certainly greater than those of 

 Man. Her perceptions are more acute, her apprehension quicker; and she has 

 a remarkable power of interpreting the feelings of others, which gives to her, 

 not only a much more ready sympathy with these, but that power of guiding 

 her actions so as to be in accordance with them, which we call tact. This tact 

 bears a close correspondence with the adaptiveness to particular ends, which we 

 see in Instinctive actions. In regard to the inferior development of her Intel- 

 lectual powers, therefore, and in the predominance of the Instinctive, Woman 

 must be considered as ranking below Man ; but in the superior purity and eleva- 

 tion of her Feelings, she is as highly raised above him. Her whole character, 

 Psychical as well as Corporeal, is beautifully adapted to supply what is deficient 

 in Man ; and to elevate and refine those powers, which might otherwise be directed 

 to low and selfish objects. 



5. Of Lactation. 



1021. The new-born Infant in the Human species, as in the class of Mammalia 

 generally, is supplied with nourishment by a secretion elaborated from the blood 



Fig. 279. 



Fig. 280. 



The Mammary Gland after the removal of the skin, as 

 taken from the subject three days after delivery : 1, the 

 surface of the chest; 2, subcutaneous fat; 3, the skin 

 covering the gland ; 4, circumference of the gland ; 5, its 

 lobules separated by fat ; 6, the lactiferous ducts converg- 

 ing to unite in the nipple; 7, the nipple slightly raised, 

 and showing the openings of the tubes at its extremity. 



A vertical section of the Mammary Gland, 

 showing its thickness and the origins of the 

 lactiferous ducts : 1, 2, 3, its pectoral sur- 

 face ; 4, section of the skin on the surface of 

 the gland; 5, the thin skin covering the 

 nipple ; 6, the lobules and lobes composing 

 the gland ; 7, the lactiferous tubes coming 

 from the lobules; 8, the same tubes col- 

 lected in the nipple. 



of its maternal parent, by certain glandular organs known as the Mammary. 

 The structure of these, which has been thoroughly investigated by Sir A. Cooper 1 



On the Anatomy of the Breast," 1840, Am. Ed. 1845. 



