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The reader must make allowances that I am here reviewing 

 the male cross only of the mental offspring of the combined 

 minds of the father and the mother. It would take a volume 

 to go into the subject fully. In the female mental reproduc- 

 tions, more preponderance would have to be given to the female 

 qualities of perception, comprehension and invention, and less 

 to those of knowledge and judgment and reason. When com- 

 bined with the mind of Understanding, its powers of reasoning 

 exceed all other classes of mind. It is the most logical in its 

 deductions, but sometimes inclined to be over dogmatical in 

 its assertions. Nevertheless, it is the mind that in men most 

 willingly admits its faults, but in women will admit its sin 

 but declines to admit its faults, though in both it is ever 

 ready to make amends for its errors. In the minds of women 

 it becomes keener in its perception but more obstinate and 

 less open to reason, and this is the reason why a woman more 

 often than a man grasps the truth, when a man with all his 

 superior powers of will and wisdom is at fault. But in woman 

 Imagination usually predominates over Understanding in the 

 construction of her mind, which makes her hostile to persua- 

 sion. If this were not the case woman would lose her love 

 and sympathy. 



The Trinity of this mind is to know, to see, and to believe. 

 This is why it is the mind of Religion and Agriculture as well 

 as the mind of Invention, Experiment and Logic. The pos- 

 sessors of this mind are the men of whom we say " They are 

 no one's enemy but their own." 



///. The Mind of Understanding*. 



This is the third class of mind, and is always considered the 

 highest standard of mind. It is the mind of soul and wisdom 

 and science, the same as Imagination is the mind of light or 

 creative power, thought and action, and comprehension the 

 mind of truth, love and justice. It is the mind whose duty 

 it is to build up the edifice of use on the foundation of theory 

 and truth, supported by experiment, which the minds of 

 comprehension has laid to be finally beautified by the poetic 

 mind of its architect, Imagination. It is the mind that will 

 have to complete the structure by testing the weakness of all 

 classes of knowledge by scientific experiment, proof, use or 



