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it as silly and misinformed and lacking in technicality. Just 

 as the solicitor in a court of justice tries to pull the evidence 

 of the witness to pieces and make him ridiculous, so the mind 

 of wisdom or understanding refuses to play, speaks with the 

 mind of Imagination, and condemns its teachings as uninte- 

 resting and lacking sufficient proof. Thus we find imaginative 

 people do not appreciate the learned, but make their friend- 

 ships amongst those who are less exact, and refuse to accept 

 science unless dressed in the frocks of fiction, fable or 

 miracle, in just the same manner that many people give their 

 business where the get-up of attractive advertisement draws, in 

 preference to seeking the better profits of a less attractively 

 got-up commodity at a lower price. 



The Comprehensive Mind is strictly female, and all male 

 forms of its development are brought about when a child's 

 brain through some pre genitive cause, owing to a more than 

 usual mental activity on the part of the mother, gives a more 

 than usual amount of development of the female productive 

 germ, and Comprehension is the result. This often causes 

 those who are possessed of mighty comprehensive minds to 

 be below the average standard of bodily physique ; in the same 

 way mental genius in woman is the result of a super-usual 

 development of the male productive germ. It is then pos- 

 sessed to the largest degree of the female qualities of percep- 

 tion and comprehension. Likewise, in the case of men, it 

 over-rules the male qualities of knowledge if combined with a 

 mind of imagination, or judgment or wisdom if married to a 

 mind of understanding. It will in either of these cases, with 

 only a small amount of knowledge, produce marvellous re- 

 sults, but it is seldom inclined to be bothered with details of 

 proof. It grasps at truth and exactness in a greedy and mar- 

 vellous manner, but when married to Imagination is often 

 oblivious to consideration as to cause or effect ; once it fancies 

 it has the true results it disdains the why or the wherefore 

 and loses itself in its enthusiasm. But when married to 

 Understanding it grasps the truth instinctively with a rapidity 

 difficult of comprehension, and is the least inclined of all 

 classes of mind to make mistakes. It is, as I have already 

 said, emphatically the mind of women and also of religious 

 enthusiasm when strongly influenced by Imagination. This 

 is why women appear more religious than men. 



