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tion is also a quality of impressibility, and, associated 

 with finesse, is apt to degenerate into duplicity and un- 

 truthfulness. 



The third quality is different. It generally appears 

 at a very early period of life. Who does not know how 

 soon the little girl selects the doll, and the boy the toy- 

 horse or machine ? Here man truly never gets beyond 

 undeveloped woman. Nevertheless, "impressibility" 

 seems to have* a great deal to do with this quality also. 



Thus the metaphysical relation of the sexes would 

 appear to be one of inexact parallelism, as defined in 

 Sect. I. That the physical relation is a remote one of 

 the same kind, several characters seem to point out. 

 The case of the vocal organs will suffice. Their struc- 

 ture is identical in both sexes in early youth, and both 

 produce nearly similar sounds. They remain in this 

 condition in the woman, while they undergo a meta- 

 morphosis and change both in structure and vocal 

 power in the man. In the same way, in many of the 

 lower creation, the females possess a majority of embry- 

 onic features, though not invariably. A common 

 example is to be found in the plumage of birds, where 

 the females and young males are often undistinguish- 

 able.* But there are few points in the physical struc- 

 ture of man also in which the male condition is the 



* Meehan states that the upper limbs and strong laterals in coni- 

 feraa and other trees produce female flowers and cones, and the 

 lower and more interior branches the male flowers. What he points 

 out is in harmony with the position here maintained namely, 

 that the female characters include more of those which are embry- 

 onic in the males, than the male characters include of those which 

 are embryonic in the female : the female flowers are the product of 

 the younger and more growing portions of the tree that is, those 

 last produced (the upper limbs and new branches) while the male 



