[Footnote 5:  Journal of Popular Science, July, 1887.]

With the intellectual differences between man and woman I have here little to do.  That there is difference, both quantitative and in a measure qualitative, I believe, nor do I think any educational change in generations of women will ever set her, as to certain mental and moral qualifications, as an equal beside the man.  It would be as impossible as to make him morally and physically, by any educational or other training, what the woman now is, his true superior in much that is as high, and as valuable as any mental capacities he may possess; nor does my creed involve for woman any refusal of the loftiest educational attainments.  I would only insist on selection and certain limitations as to age of training and methods of work, concerning which I shall by and by have something more to say.  Neither would I forbid to her any profession or mode of livelihood.  This is a human right.  I do not mean to discuss it here either as citizen or physician; but, as man, I like to state for my fellow-man that there are careers now sought and won and followed by her which for him inevitably lessen her true attractiveness, and to my mind make her less fit to be the “friendly lover and the loving friend."[7] AEsthetic and other sacrifices in this direction are, however, her business, not mine, and do not influence my practical judgments as to what freedom to act is or should be hers in common with men.  For most men, when she seizes the apple, she drops the rose.  I am a little afraid that Mrs. Lynn Linton is right as to this, but it took some courage to say what she said,[6] and she looks at the matter from a more practical point of view, and deserves to be read at length rather than quoted in fragments.

[Footnote 6:  One would like to know how many women truly want the suffrage, and how, when it was won, the earnest anti-tariff wife would construe the marriage service in the face of the husband’s belief in high tariff.  The indirect influence of women in politics is worth a thought.  We felt it sorely in 1861, and thence on to the war’s end, and to-day it is the woman who is making the general prohibition laws probable.  For ill or good she is still a power in the state.]

[Footnote 7:  Fortnightly, 1886.]

I return to the subject.  We want our young girl to be all that Romanes says she is.  We desire, too, that she shall be as thoroughly educated in relation to her needs as her brothers, and that in so training her we shall not forget that my ideal young person is to marry or not, and, at all events, is to have a good deal of her life in her home with others, and should have some resources for minor or self-culture and occupation besides the larger ones which come of more distinctively intellectual acquirements.