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reactions on women, and which is not by the reactions 

 received from man differently affected than by 

 those which reach it from woman. 



To illustrate: Let a manly man and a womanly 

 woman look at the same great work of art, or the 

 same grand scene in nature; they will be attracted 

 by different features of it, and will have aroused 

 within them different thoughts and emotions, dif- 

 ferent motives for differing actions. Let them read 

 the same poem or other literary production, and the 

 results will differ similarly. Equally so, if both have 

 the same problems in politics, economics, religion, 

 ethics, business, or daily conduct presented for 

 decision. 



And in every such case the angle of divergence 

 between the persons of different sex will be the same 

 as that indicated by that first separation of the sexes, 

 when the male confined himself to the struggle for 

 existence, and the female to the propagation of the 

 race. Mark now the truism: that the range of 

 activities of the human body and mind, and the joys 

 of doing, thinking, feeling, are deepened, pari passu, 

 with increase in the perceptions of more details in the 

 phenomena that affect us, and with multiplication 

 of the subjective activities they provoke. 



Since, by reason of the differentiation here under 

 consideration, the female perceives, in nearly all 

 phenomena presented, some details which the male 

 does not, and, therefore, acts, thinks, feels, in some 

 respects as the male does not, and vice versa, there- 



