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and finally, in the case of an alienist or a 

 physician, the women he has the opportunity 

 of studying may be very far from the normal, 



Bucura refers to a paper by Heymans, " Die 

 Psychologic der Frau " (Heidelberg, 1910), 

 as a good example of the combined method 

 of exact experiment and analysis. Heymans 

 agrees with most other authors in regarding 

 women as much more emotional than men, 

 and he refers many of the other sex-characters 

 such as incalculability, a tendency to self- 

 sacrifice, and inferior sense of justice to this 

 greater emotionality, which has a physical 

 basis and is correlated with the greater, vaso- 

 motor excitability. Other so-called feminine 

 characters, such as dissimulation, and a lower 

 regard for truth, he regards, with Finot, as 

 merely the weapon of the weak, and maintains 

 that they are no more marked in women than 

 in men where there is a reasonable equality in 

 their relations to one another. 



Interesting too, is Heymans' discussion of 

 the "divination" or "intuition" of women, 

 which he regards as due to the greater role 

 played by the subconscious in them, the 

 whole mental processes of association and 

 deduction remaining subconscious and only 

 the result emerging. In this connection, the 

 analytical method of Freud and his school, 

 which we have referred to in a previous chapter, 

 is of great interest. 



Thanks to Weismann in particular, biologists 

 have become vividly aware of the importance 

 of discriminating between modifications and 

 variations. Any one can see that there are 



