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statistical inquiries, however fair our intentions may be, 

 and as it in justice always excites suspicion, I decided, 

 though with much regret at their loss, to omit the whole 

 of those who were not adult. 



Sexual Distribution. — Men and women, as classes, 

 may differ little in their natural artistic capacity, 

 but such difference as there is in adult life is some- 

 what in favour of the women. Table 9b contains 

 894 cases, 447 of men and 447 of women, divided 

 into three groups according to the rank they hold in 

 the pedigrees. These groups agree fairly well among 

 themselves, and therefore their aggregate results may 

 be freely accepted as trustworthy. They show that 

 28 per cent, of the males are Artistic and 72 are 

 Not Artistic, and that there are 33 per cent. Artistic 

 females to 67 who are Not Artistic. Part of this 

 female superiority is doubtless to be ascribed to the 

 large share that music and drawing occupy in the 

 education of women, and to the greater leisure that 

 most girls have, or take, for amusing themselves. If 

 the artistic gifts of men and women are naturally the 

 same, as the experience of schools where music and 

 drawing are taught, apparently shows it to -be, the 

 small difference observed in favour of women in adult 

 life would be a measure of the smallness of the effect 

 of education compared to that of natural talent. Dis- 

 regarding the distinction of sex, the figures in Table 

 9b show that the number of Artistic to Non-Artistic 

 persons in the general population is in the proportion 



