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woman instinctively subjects the present to the 

 future through sustained emotion, accompanied 

 by a power of sacrifice in the service of the ideal 

 which greatly exceeds this capacity in the male 

 sex. 



When we turn for the case about woman from this 

 point of view of Power the facts deeply impress 

 the imagination. It is well to put entirely aside 

 all the comparisons upon which the popular mind 

 has run in the past of woman's capacities with man's 

 capacities at the level of man's standards strength, 

 endurance, brain qualities, work capacities, character 

 inheritance all the comparisons of these qualities 

 in woman with man's standards with which we have 

 been usually occupied have no real significance. 



Woman's relationship to Power is so different 

 from man's in the social integration that it is at 

 present almost beyond the full comprehension of the 

 male mind. 



To get the matter into focus it is better to avoid 

 all preconception arising from the past, and to do 

 this most thoroughly it is better not to take the case 

 for woman in relation to civilization from any of its 

 advocates, but to go straight to the discussions about 

 woman's sex and woman's mind which have been 

 carried on by those who have put the case against 

 woman in civilization in the most thorough- 



