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human intelligence, and ignores the rest of the circum- 

 ference. It is to the intellectual man what variation is 

 to the physical man. By culture we hold our own, and 

 by technical training we advance to higher levels. Both 

 are equally important to human welfare, and the great 

 problem of the future is how to secure each to the great- 

 est degree without sacrificing the other. The analogy 

 of the rest of the organic world would seem to indicate 

 that this is to be accomplished by "division of labor." 

 If the female mind has gained during its evolution an 

 especial aptness for acquiring and applying the results 

 of past progress, by an empirical method and without 

 the necessity for studying proofs and reasons, it would 

 seem especially fitted for culture, as distinct from train- 

 ing, while the male mind is best- -fitted for education by 

 that process of inductive training by demonstration and 

 experiment which leads to new advances. The methods 

 employed in the general instruction of young men and 

 young women should not therefore be identical. With 

 the one the field may be very wide and the methods 

 empirical, and with the other the range more narrow 

 and the methods more strictly logical. In this way each 

 type of mind will be developed in the manner for which 

 it has an especial fitness; and we have the strongest 

 grounds for the belief that this method would also grad- 

 ually result in the extension of that congenital acquaint- 

 ance with nature which is the common stock of the race, 

 and would thus leave more time for the special training 

 of those minds which are by nature best fitted to receive 

 it. It is unavoidable that a bald outline of a view which 

 has such wide implications should afford many openings 

 for serious criticism; but the present article does not 

 admit of the expansion of the idea, even if its detailed 

 examination could be fairly included in the province of 



