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women. But these qualities will not become 

 natural in spite of the endeavor to instil them. 

 The differentiation in men and women will 

 gradually increase and the basis on which the 

 acquired characters rest will be weaker. On 

 the other hand, less education will be needed 

 by natural characters. They will simply de- 

 mand an awakening which comes in due time 

 if the conditions of life are kept normal. 



The acceptance of this doctrine would re- 

 verse many educational maxims. Holding the 

 mind to be a group of apartments, we try to 

 add more of them where men and women are 

 already strong, and strive to educate women to 

 be good mothers and men to be clear thinkers. 

 But women are made mothers by a natural 

 process. Men cannot improve on it if they 

 would. In spite of all the talk, there is no 

 danger of a race of unnatural mothers. On 

 the contrary, mothers are improving, but by a 

 method that education cannot affect. So, too, 

 men are, to an increasing degree, accurate 

 thinkers. But they would progress without 

 education. Education may rouse their minds 

 at an earlier age, or give to certain individuals 



