Education 175 



The paradox of the situation is this: try 

 to make men and women alike, and they will 

 become increasingly different ; try to make 

 them different, and their likenesses will in- 

 crease. But this contradiction disappears when 

 we see that if the weak sides of men and 

 women are developed, social conditions are 

 improved ; where the natural process can work 

 more effectively the natural differentiation of 

 men and women increases. But if all the 

 effort of education centres on the attempted 

 development of strong natural qualities, the 

 effort is wasted, and wrong social ideas are in- 

 culcated which reduce the productive power of 

 society. Natural differentiations are checked 

 and both men and women sink back toward 

 that undifferentiated state out of which the 

 race has come. 



Besides education there is a discipline nec- 

 essary to effective activity. Character largely 

 depends on the regularity of action and on 

 the quickness of response. Discipline is a 

 greater directness of action ; it is the more 

 economic accomplishment, through the kata- 

 bolic quick-acting centres, of that which is 



