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ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, ESQ., M.D., ON 



the nervous system is what counts ; and this is probably of greater 

 importance with tools than without them, or with those of a very 

 elementary nature. 



I agree cordially with the remark in paragraph 6 of the same page 

 that the quality of woman's mind is of still greater importance than 

 her body ; inasmuch as the exercise of a right mind naturally tends 

 towards a right body. This has been noticed by some who make no 

 serious pretence to religion. But if we would preserve society from 

 the results of the terrible contagious disease alluded to in the same 

 paragraph, and from the causes which lead to it, the object will not 

 be obtained by preaching the same sermon to men as to women. 



Again, woman, who has to deal with the thousand and one little 

 details of her own domestic life, reasons naturally from the particular ; 

 whilst man, who has to deal with the fewer great affairs, reasons, 

 or should do so, from general great principles. 



In paragraph 5 of page 29 is the remark : " Women generally are 

 more spiritual as well as more emotional than men." They are more 

 religious because more emotional, and fill those churches from which 

 men are kept away, largely by their reasoning instincts ; but I 

 cannot find that, in proportion, they are either more or less spiritual 

 in the true sense of the word. 



On page 35 is an allusion to " the gens, the head of which was a 

 woman ; the union of several gentes forming a tribe ; the family 

 as we now know it, before the establishment of monogamous marriage 

 being unknown, property, position and power being centred in the 

 female head of the gens." This may have been a very general 

 custom, but so also was idolatry ; and neither was " from the 

 beginning." " As for my people, children are their oppressors, and 

 women rule over them " was a sign of degradation in Israel. 



Again, on the same page, I maintain that the Grecian theory, 

 however derived, that the pneuma " or personal spirit was derived 

 from the male, and not from the female, is correct and Scriptural. 

 It might well have been inferred from the Old Testament, where 

 the Spirit of life, not, I submit. Divine in itself, but animal, as 

 Oen. vii, 21-22 teaches, was specially given to the earthly 

 matter of Adam, by God who always speaks of Himself as masculine. 

 It is more clearly shown in the New Testament by the immaculate 

 conception and birth of our Lord. 



