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in which each sex is most likely to succeed when brought 

 into fair competition with the other sex. 



The originating or progressive power of the male 

 mind is shown in its highest forms by the ability to pur- 

 sue original trains of abstract thought, to reach the 

 great generalizations of science, and to give rise to the 

 new creations of poetry and art. The capacity for work 

 of this character is of course very exceptional among 

 men; and, although history shows that it is almost ex- 

 clusively confined to men, it must not enter into our 

 conception of the ordinary male mind. The same power 

 of originating and of generalizing from new experiences 

 is possessed, in a lesser degree, however, by ordinary 

 men, and gives them an especial fitness for and an ad- 

 vantage over women in those trades, professions, and 

 occupations where competition is closest, and where 

 marked success depends upon the union of the knowledge 

 and skill shared by competitors, to the inventiveness or 

 originality necessary to gain the advantage over them. 



Women, on the other hand, would seem to be better 

 fitted for those occupations where ready tact and versa- 

 tility are of more importance than the narrow technical 

 skill which comes from apprenticeship or training, and, 

 where success does not involve competition with rivals. / 



The adequate examination of this aspect of our SUD- 

 ject would furnish material for a treatise, and it is out 

 of place here, as all that is necessary for the purposes of 

 our argument at present is to point out the difference, 

 and to show that it is the necessary consequence of our 

 view of the manner in which sex has been evolved: that 

 it is not due to the subjection of one sex by the other, 

 but is the means by which the progress of the race is 

 to be accomplished. 



Turning now to another part of cnr subject, and bear- 



