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word as a physiologist. I was afraid when he drew your attention 

 to a very patent physiological difference in the sexes that you 

 might go away with the idea that this was disheartening to 

 women. Though it happens that women are for the most part 

 weaker, in our condition of society, than men, I know no 

 Physiolgical reason why it should be so. I do not think it is 

 so to the same extent with women over the world. It is not 

 so in all women, even in this country, but what we do know is 

 this, the sacrificing nature of women. They sacrifice themselves 

 for their families or husbands, often taking little or no food, 

 and saving most of it for their husbands when they come home. 

 This is not likely to lead to health of body or strength of mind. 

 If women regulated their diet, the times and quantity of it, 

 their amusements and exercises, as men do, they would be much 

 stronger than they are. You heard from the Professor his doubt, 

 and I do not wonder at it, whether it is desirable that men and 

 women should be taught together in joint classes. I think he 

 put that very fairly before you. I know something of this 

 matter in connection with the classes in the Queen's College 

 here, and I am bound to say that in point of gentlemanly conduct, 

 in point of reverence, and attention, no men in the world could 

 possibly have distinguished themselves more highly than the 

 men of the North of Ireland, when taught together with women 

 in the classes of the Queen's College. I am sure you will join 

 with me very heartily in proposing that our thanks be given to 

 the learned Professor for having brought this subject so lucidly 

 before us. 



Miss Tod. — It would not be easy for me to express the pleasure 

 which it gives me to second the vote of thanks. The beauty of 

 the lecture to which we have listened is obvious to all. I 

 wonder whether in looking up the history of the education of 

 women, it has occurred to the Professor what an enormous 

 amount of money, pains, and trouble women have spent upon 

 the education of men. The history of the Oxford and Cambridge 

 Universities is a remarkable proof of this. I have otten thought 

 that really in that respect, purely from a monetary point of 



