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the qualities that are naturally lacking. The 

 weak side may be strengthened, but the basis 

 on which it rests will not be improved it will 

 probably be weakened by heredity. The re- 

 sult is that if the quality is to exist at all in the 

 descendant, he must acquire it not only as his 

 father did, but perhaps with even greater effort 

 If, on the contrary, a quality arises from a 

 stronger part of a being, it appears with in- 

 creased vigor in the descendant and does not 

 require the nurturing necessary to qualities 

 having a weak basis in heredity. Some mental 

 qualities have an anabolic and others a kata- 

 bolic basis. The first will be natural to men 

 and must be acquired by women, while the 

 second will be natural to women and must be 

 acquired by men. Successful persons must 

 have both groups of qualities. 



Men and women tend to be different. They 

 must be kept on an equality by an education 

 which shall give to each sex the characters 

 that are natural to the other. To put it simply, 

 civilized men are good thinkers, the women of 

 their race have strong wills, and education 

 must give decision to men and clear thought to 



