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regarded with extreme suspicion. There is a 

 wholesome natural prejudice against the mas- 

 culine woman and the feminine man. What 

 an engine of progress there is in sexual se- 

 lection, we shall more clearly realise when 

 economic conditions make more discriminate 

 preferential mating on the woman's part 

 possible. 



And if it be important, as we have just 

 hinted, that the culture of the body should 

 be congruent with the fundamental distinction 

 between male and female, and should make 

 the most of the normal masculine and feminine 

 attractions, the same is true in regard to the 

 contrasted intellectual qualities of, let us say, 

 mental experiment on the one hand, and rapid 

 intuitive insight on the other, as also for the 

 complemental moral qualities of courage and 

 affection. We have perhaps got away from 

 the stupid survival of discussing the superior- 

 ity of one sex or the other ; but we have not 

 sufficiently freed ourselves from obscurantism, 

 since we are so slow to act constructively, in 

 education, for instance, in the way of making 

 the most of the complementary differences. 



Thus in the prolonged discussion over the 

 pros and cons of co-education, how rarely 

 has it been pointed out that neither method 

 is ideal, for it is quite plain that boys and girls, 

 men and women, should be taught together 

 for certain reasons, and taught separately 

 for certain other reasons. There are different 

 studies, and different modes of presentation 

 for the two sexes, if we are to make the most 

 of their respective excellences. As Alsberg 



