744 Sexual Distinctions and Resemblances . [December, 
compared with women, to be 150 c.c. for the French gene- 
rally, but as much as 211 c.c. for the inhabitants of Paris. 
There is also a difference in the shape of the skull, which is 
relatively longer and less elevated in women than in men. 
The brain of men is heavier than that of women, not 
merely absolutely, but in proportion to the weight of the 
entire body. Thus the average size of woman bears to man 
the proportion of 927 to 1000, whilst the weights of the 
brain are respectively as 909 : 1000. Even when of equal 
size the brain in the female is lighter than in the male. The 
mean weight of seventeen male brains exceeded that of 
seventeen female brains, of the same size, by nearly 6 ozs. 
We find also relative differences of structure. 
Broca, Wagner, and Huschke agree that in women the 
frontal lobes are less fully developed than in men, the difference 
in favour of men being, according to the last-named observer, 
as much as 54 c.c. In return the occipital lobes are bulkier 
in the female sex. It is considered by some authorities that 
the right brain is more developed in women, and the left in 
men, — a difference which, if established, would explain why 
in passing men generally keep to the right hand and women 
to the left. 
From these data are drawn the following conclusions : — 
“ The superiority of the female sex is witnessed only in 
the inferior races of mankind and in the young children of 
the higher, and marks an inferior stage of evolution. 
“ The same is the case with the equality of the sexes, which 
occurs merely in imperfectly developed varieties and species, 
in young persons, in the decline of years, and in the lower 
classes of society. 
“ On the other hand, the pre-eminence of the male as 
compared with the female marks a higher stage of evolution. 
It occurs in the highest species and races, in the prime of 
life, and in the superior strata of society. 
“ Both morally and physically Evolution appears to have 
traversed from a state of superiority of the female to a state 
of superiority of the male, equality of the sexes representing 
a transition or intermediate stage.” 
These results, I fear, will not be welcome to the successors 
of John Stuart Mill. But when did a “ reformer” stoop to 
consider such trifles as biological faCts ? 
