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on account of affection and less efficient and con- 

 structive in the affairs of the intellect. But we yet 

 know but little of the fundamental differences in 

 sex psychology, and a grave difficulty in the way of 

 acquiring this knowledge is the fact that nearly all 

 the subjects available for observation have been so 

 differently environed as the result of custom, accord- 

 ing as they are male or female, that comparisons of 

 natural faculties are much obscured. The result is 

 that we cannot state confidently how much the 

 superiority of men is due to natural and fixed causes 

 and how much to social and modifiable causes. 

 There is good reason to believe that great and real 

 as are the natural differences between men and 

 women, they are far from explaining the differences 

 which are actually in evidence in society as it is at 

 present constituted. In other words, there exist dif- 

 ferences which must be due to the educational and 

 environmental influences which have discriminated 

 unfavorably against women. 



We may predict with considerable confidence that 

 the future will show increasing numbers of women 

 who have had educational chances, not inferior to 

 those of men, for the development of character and 

 talent. Some of the predictable results of these 

 improved opportunities are self-evident ; others are 

 less frankly obvious. Some of these results have to 

 do with the family relations of women, for educa- 

 tion cannot fail to make women better companions 

 for their husbands and better guides and models for 



