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well-balanced, free individuals, before they are able to stand alone ; 

 but Gladstone said, ' It is liberty alone which fits men for liberty,' 

 and doubtless this is equally the case with women." 



In reply, Dr. Schofield thanked the large audience for their 

 favourable acceptance of his paper, and briefly replied to those 

 who had spoken as follows : — 



I notice that on the whole my wise and wary auditors have 

 carefully avoided the real subject of my paper, which is " The 

 Psychology of the Female Mind." Mr. Eouse questions " the gens " 

 and proceeds to remark it was not known to historic Greece nor to 

 Rome, but he will observe that while the condition was the natural 

 outcome of promiscuous polygamy, I showed how in Greece 

 and Rome it disappeared, and the male thenceforth became the 

 head. 



Colonel Alves has pointed out that a man's brain is still of value. 

 Perhaps, when I said " his body " had shrunk in value with the 

 discovery of tools, to be precise I should have said *' the value 

 of his muscular energy " ; for I admit his brain is part of his body. 

 I fear I must not follow the Colonel in his remarks on the origin 

 of the " pneuma," as so little is known that it must be still mainly 

 a matter of speculation. 



Dr. Anderson-Berry said that asexuality was the bane of modern 

 womankind. Is not this a little too strong ? I greatly fear the 

 bane of modern womankind lies in other directions altogether ; 

 and when I consider the injustice to women of our customs connected 

 with marriage and the vast numbers of enforced spinsters in these 

 isles, it seems to me that what is wanted is a more rational procedure 

 in the whole matter. 



The Doctor proceeds to say " the presence of asexuality produces 

 the tragedy of marriage, and puts the innocent joys of matrimony 

 to flight " — here, I confess, I fail to follow. 



Marriage, even when crowned with motherhood, is not quite 

 " the be-all and end-all of woman." There still remains a little 

 outside both of these honourable functions. Anatomy and physiology 

 do not teach us all of womanhood. I fully concur with Dr. Anderson- 

 Berry's hope that ere long we may have a psychological paper 

 from Miss Maynard. 



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