THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE FEMALE MIND. 



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I much fear for the results of the so-called emancipation of 

 woman." Freeing herself from the control of man, she is all the 

 more likely to be enslaved by evil angels. Both Moses, in 

 Gen. vi, 1-4, and Paul, in 1 Cor. xi, 10, caution us on this point. 

 The fall and the flood both came largely through woman going out 

 of her sphere ; and at the end of the age it will be " as it was in the 

 days of Noah." 



Prof. H. Langhorne Orchard thought that they must all have 

 felt the charm of this able and very attractive paper, although they 

 might be unable to concur with the author in his view that the 

 modern woman is superior to her early Victorian predecessor. 



The author's remarks on the psychological training of women 

 intending to become mothers, and of all female teachers, are of very 

 great value, and will, I hope, receive the public recognition and 

 attention which they deserve. His description of the husband as. 

 " the head of the house,'' and of the wife as " the head of the home " 

 is particularly felicitous. The man in judicial qualities, the woman 

 in intuitive perception, must be accorded pre-eminence. His empire 

 is that of the mind, her empire is that of the heart ; he is her head^ 

 she captures his heart. Cordially do I endorse the statement 

 (page 31), " Love, which in its highest expression, is the nature of God,, 

 and the power of Christianity, is more feminine than masculine." 

 Also, that final statement (page 38) as to our Lord's life on earth. 



Dr. Anderson-Berry, M.D., LL.D., said : — Psychology is that, 

 branch of science that concerns itself with the mind. Now science 

 is knowledge systematized. Knowledge in its original concrete 

 and particular forms cannot be systematized. Principles must be 

 evolved and facts set down in the light of such principles ; then we 

 have knowledge systematized, that is, science or truth in scientific 

 form. 



To-night we are asked to deal thus with the facts of the female 

 mind (but that savours of dualism), of the female soul (but that 

 savours of religion), of the female consciousness, or better still,, 

 using a Lockeian term, experience. Now experience is the process* 

 of becoming expert by experiment, and women are making many 

 experiments to-day. Walking the streets one sees them making 

 experiment with the dress and accoutrements of the male ; and in 

 the cars and buses, of their manners ; whilst in the trains one is 



