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mother becomes the mental heredity of the 

 son. Make good mothers and they will bear 

 great sons because the mind of the son is 

 the doubling of the body of the mother. 



I may be wrong in detail, but if this prin- 

 ciple is in a measure correct, education is a 

 double process. In certain relations anabolic 

 qualities are strong or weak ; while where they 

 are strong or weak, katabolic qualities are of 

 the opposite degree. Where men are physi- 

 cally strong or mentally weak, there women have 

 naturally the opposite quality. Together they 

 properly supplement each other and as the 

 differentiation becomes more pronounced, the 

 mutual dependence of the sexes is increased. 



We are therefore approaching, if we have 

 not already arrived at, the time when more use 

 must be made of these facts. Isolated men or 

 isolated women are not able to make any real 

 social progress. As men develop, we gain at 

 certain points, but we likewise lose at others. 

 Civilized men are clear in thought but they are 

 indecisive in action. There is an increasing 

 loss each year because educated men have so 

 little decision that the control of affairs goes to 



