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is one that I can never consent to underrate ; 

 but that influence is towards enthusiasm and 

 love (as distinguished from philanthropy), not 

 towards calm judgment, nor, inclusively, towards 

 science. In many respects the character of 

 scientific men is strongly anti-feminine ; their 

 mind is directed to facts and abstract theories, 

 and not to persons or human interests. The 

 man of science is deficient in the purely emo- 

 tional element, and in the desire to influence 

 the beliefs of others. Thus I find that 2 out 

 of every 1 do not care for politics at all ; 

 they are devoid of partisanship. They school 

 a naturally equable and independent mind to 

 a still more complete subordination to their 

 judgment. In many respects they have little 

 sympathy with female ways of thought. It 

 is a curious proof of this, that in the very 

 numerous answers which have reference to 

 parental influence, that of the father is quoted 

 three times as often as that of the mother. 

 It would not have been the case, judging 

 from inquiries I elsewhere made, if I had 

 been discussing the antecedents of literary 



