EX VIRIBVS VIVIMUS. 



The generally high longevity of females as com- 

 pared with males in civilized communities is well 

 established, and is fully explained in agreement with 

 the law of diminished expenditure favouring longe- 

 vity, women having undeniably less personal expen- 

 diture, and but little more generative expenditure, 

 though such as they do have is concentrated, than men. 

 It is noteworthy that the generative expenditure is 

 lessened in women when the personal expenditure is 

 increased, as is distinctly observed in the United 

 States of America, where the women are intellectually 

 far more active than elsewhere, and suffer, so far, from 

 the relatively enormous costliness of nervous outlay. 

 Thus the material of generation serves as a store 

 which is drawn upon before the general powers in- 

 volving longevity are affected in women. 



The females of the English peerage present a 

 greater contrast with the males than is observable 

 between the sexes of any other group recorded. 

 This conforms to the law, for in them there is the 

 greatest difference as to expenditure, the females 

 leading the most carefully-guarded, well-considered, 

 and easy lives, whilst the males, especially in young 

 life, having money at disposal, may lead irregular 

 lives, involving great expenditure both personal and 

 generative, leading to disease and enfeeblement, which 

 is a direct result of misdirected expenditure. The 

 destructiveness of intemperate habits may be seen in 

 the column given in the life-table T. Moreover, 



