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the powers and energies of his character the submission, love and 

 faith which the new birth alone can give. 



Thus the summing up of the metaphysical qualities of woman 

 would be thus expressed : In the emotional world, man's superior ; 

 in the moral world, his equal ; in the laboring world, his inferior. 



There are, however, vast differences in women in respect to 

 the number of masculine traits they may have assumed before be- 

 ing determined into their own special development. Woman also, 

 under the influence of necessity, in later years of life, may add 

 more or less to those qualities in her which are fully developed in 

 the man. 



The relation of these facts to the principles stated as the two 

 opposing laws of development is, it appears to me, to be explained 

 thus : First, that woman's most inherent peculiarities are not the 

 result of the external circumstances with which she has been 

 placed in contact, as the conflict theory would indicate. Such 

 circumstances are said to be her involuntary subserviency to the 

 physically more powerful man, and the effect of a compulsory 

 mode of life in preventing her from attaining a position of equali- 

 ty in the activities of the world. Second, that they are the result 

 of the different distributions of qualities as already indicated by 

 the harmonic theory of development ; that is, of the unequal posses- 

 sion of features which belong to different periods in the develop- 

 mental succession of the highest. There is then another beauti- 

 ful harmony which will ever remain, let the development of each 

 sex be extended as far as it may. 



(c) In Men. — If we look at the male sex, we shall find various 

 exceptional approximations to the female in mental constitution. 

 Further, there can be little doubt that in the Indo-European race 

 maturity in some respects appears earlier in tropical than in 

 northern regions ; and though subject to many exceptions, this is 

 sufficiently general to be looked upon as a rule. Accordingly, we 

 find in that race — at least in the warmer regions of Europe and 

 America — a larger proportion of certain qualities which are more 

 universal in women ; as greater activity of the emotional nature 

 when compared with the Judgment ; an impressibility of the nerv- 

 ous center, which, cceteris paribus, appreciates quickly the har- 

 monies of sound, form, and color ; answers most quickly to the 

 friendly greeting or the hostile menace ; is more careless of conse- 

 quences in the material expression of generosity or hatred, and 

 more indifferent to truth under the influence of personal relations. 



