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number of cases it is early passed; in some it lasts 

 longer ; while in a very few men it persists through life. 

 Severe discipline and labor are unfavorable to its per- 

 sistence. Luxury preserves its bad qualities without its 

 good, while Christianity preserves its good elements 

 without its bad. 



It is not designed to say that woman in her emotional 

 nature does not differ from the undeveloped man. On 

 the contrary, though she does not differ in kind, she 

 differs greatly in degree, for her qualities grow with her 

 growth, and exceed in power many fold those exhibited 

 by her companion at the original point of departure. 

 Hence, since it might be said that man is the undevel- 

 oped woman, a word of explanation will be useful. 

 Embryonic types abound in the fields of nature, but 

 they are not therefore immature in the usual sense. 

 Maintaining the lower essential quality, they yet exhibit 

 the usual results of growth in individual characters ; 

 that is, increase of strength, powers of support and pro- 

 tection, size and beauty. In order to maintain that the 

 masculine character coincides with that of the undevel- 

 oped woman, it would be necessary to show that the 

 latter during her infancy possesses the male characters 

 predominating that is, unimpressibility, judgment, 

 physical courage, and the like. 



If we look at the second class of female characters 

 namely, those which are imperfectly developed or 

 absent in men, and in respect to which man may be 

 called undeveloped woman we note three prominent 

 points : facility in language, tact or finesse, and the love 

 of children. The first two appear to me to be alto- 

 gether developed results of "impressibility," already 

 considered as an indication of immaturity. Imagina- 



