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ations have been busied with another and a widely 

 different set of occupations. And as occupations 

 have inevitable reactions upon mind, character, and 

 disposition, these two have slowly become different 

 in mind and character and disposition. That cleav- 

 age therefore, which began in the merely physical 

 region, is now seen to extend into the psychi- 

 cal realm, and ends by supplying the world with 

 two great and forever separate types. No efforts, 

 or explanations, or expostulations can ever break 

 down that distinction between maleness and female- 

 ness, or make it possible to believe that they were 

 not destined from the first of time to play a different 

 part in human history. Male and female never 

 have been and never will be the same. They are 

 different in origin ; they have travelled to their 

 destinations by different routes ; they have had 

 different ends in view. The result is that they 

 are different, and the contribution therefore of each 

 to the evolution of the human race is special and 

 unique. By and by it will be our duty to mark 

 what Man, in virtue of his peculiar gift, has done 

 for the world ; part indeed of his contribution has 

 been already recorded here. To him has been 

 mainly assigned the fulfilment of the first great 

 function — the Struggle for Life. Woman, whose 

 higher contribution has not yet been named, is the 



