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The affectional or emotional qualities have been developed in the 

 same way. The especially beneficial emotion is that of sympa- 

 thy, or the love of other beings than self, and this it is thought 

 has been evolved from the primitive sexual instinct. Dai win has 

 pointed out how sexual se>ection has probably effected develop- 

 ment of purely bodily perfections, as in the cases of the brilliant 

 plumage and musical voices of birds. He very significantly calls 

 his book on sexual selection, " The Descent of Man." 



That the rational faculty cannot be too much developed, goes 

 without saying. It is also evident that the affections or sympa- 

 thies should be developed sufficiently to produce a desire for the 

 happiness of others, through the pleasure the happiness of others 

 gives us. A lack of sympathy is as great a defect of character 

 as is the lack of rationality. 



The question for societv then is, what are the best methods of 

 developing the two foundation elements of character, rationality 

 and sympathy. These qualities check each other in practice, and 

 form the two sources of happiness. 



If custom imposes on either sex any disability by which its 

 development in any respect is curtailed, the race of both sexes 

 suffers injury. It suffers in two ways: 

 First, by defective inheritance by children. 



Second, through inequality in the sexes themselves, and conse- 

 quent lack of mutual sympathy and interest. 



i. Of course children are more or less influenced in their men- 

 tal constitution by that of the mother, and we shall never have an 

 'deal race until mothers arc developed as much as possible. We 

 speak of mothers because custom does not supply to them the 

 same stimuli to intellectual exercise as it does to men. Some 

 professional men have even permitted themselves to express the 

 idea that the education of girls interferes with their physical de- 

 velopment. We are loth to believe that this is a necessary stare 

 of things ; if it be so in some instances, it is to be hoped that it 

 is a temporary condition of race or family, and one to be reme- 

 died by future experience. There is also no doubt a lingering 



than are ignorant and thoughtless ones. The supposition that 

 education can make a woman anything but a woman, can only 

 °e entertained by persons unskilled in zo61ogy. It has been 

 P^tty conclusively shown by Broca and others, that a greater 

 divergence or specialization of the sexes is consequent on civil. za- 

 fcon, as in evolution generally; and it would seem to be entirely 

 Within the range of our power to determine whether this divcr- 

 ?'fy shall or shall not include an atrophy of the rational faculty 

 »n women. 



u - The effect of education of both sexes is to enhance their 

 '"tere.st in each other, and the relation is ennobled in direct pro- 

 Portion to the amount of mental sympathy which exists between 



