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to be transmitted to both £n.^eB, are rales which, though 

 general, do not always hold. If they always held good, 

 we might conclude (but I here exceed my proper bounds) 

 that the inherited effects of the early education of boys and 

 girls would be transmitted equally to both sexes; so that 

 the present inequality in mental power between the sexes 

 would not be effaced by a similar course of early training; 

 nor can it have been caused by their dissimilar early train- 

 ing. In order that woman should reach the same standard 

 as man, she ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to 

 energy and perseverance, and to have her reason and im- 

 agination exercised to the highest point; and then she would 

 probably transmit these qualities chiefly to her adult daugh- 

 ters. All women, however, could not he thus raised, unless 

 during many generations those who excelled in the above 

 robust virtues were married, and produced offspring in 

 larger numbers than other women. As before remarked 

 of bodily strength, although men do not now fight for 

 their wives, and this form of selection has passed away, 

 yet, during manhood, they generally undergo a severe 

 struggle in order to maintain themselves and their fami- 

 lies; and this will tend to keep up or even increase their 

 mental powers, and, as a consequence, the present inequal- 

 ity between the sexes.** 



' Voice and Musical Powers. — In some species of Quadru- 

 mana there is a great difference between the adult sexes, 

 in the power of their voices and in the development of the 

 vocal organs; and man appears to have inherited this dif- 

 ference from his early progenitors. His vocal cords are 

 about one-third longer than in woman, or than in boys; 



»• An observation by Vogt bears on this subject; he says, '*It is a remark- 

 able circumstance timt the deference between the sexes, as regards the cranial 

 cavity, increases with the development of the race, so that the male European 

 excels much more the female than the negro the negress. Welcker couflrma 

 this statement of Huschke from his measurements of negro and German 

 skulls." But Vogt admits ("Lectures on Man," Eng. trsnslat., 1864, p. 81) 

 tbftt more obaervationa are requisite on this point. 



