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admitted that more observations are yet requi- 

 site before the fact can be positively asserted). 

 It is argued from this fact, if such it be, that the 

 progress of society has brought with it a still 

 greater differentiation of sex, and, this having 

 proved beneficial for the human race, it is folly 

 to seek to reverse it. Let us take the last 

 argument first. Because a certain method has 

 led us up to a certain point, it does not follow 

 that the same method continued will carry us 

 on further. Races that have reached a certain 

 stage may be hindered by extreme conservatism 

 from making any further progress like the 

 Chinese. Again, at what degree of differentia- 

 tion between the habits and lives of the sexes 

 are we to draw the line ? Englishmen, French- 

 men, Turks would draw it very differently. 

 And the Turk ought to please the biological 

 Conservative best, because he has pushed the 

 differentiation of the sexes to a logical issue. 

 The persons who use this kind of argument 

 fancy that they are influenced by scientific con- 

 siderations, but they are really influenced by 

 what they happen to have grown accustomed to. 

 Thirdly, if there is this greater difference 

 between the cranial cavities of savage and 



