178 Heredity and Social Progress 



Wrath, therefore, affects the outer bodies of 

 men where they are katabolic, and fear affects 

 the outer bodies of women where they are 

 anabolic. Wrath is natural to men and fear is 

 natural to women, so long as their bodily 

 states control them. When, however, the mind 

 becomes dominant by the displacement of 

 primitive conditions, these traits disappear and 

 the real mental characters of men and women 

 show themselves. Bodily fear in women is 

 replaced by the mental decisiveness of civilized 

 women, and the wrathful energy of men is 

 lost as soon as analytic thought makes action 

 slow and causes men to change from direct to 

 indirect methods. The civilized man loses the 

 effective promptness of primitive men and 

 regains it only by a bodily education that gives 

 him an acquired ability to do that which is 

 natural to women. 



SUMMARY 



i . The popular view of education is a theory of progress 

 by addition. It is assumed that the mind gains in strength 

 as new units are added. In contrast with this is a theory of 

 progress by differentiation. Complementary units become 

 strong, each in its way, and supplement each other so that 



