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so far as industry is concerned, be brought about ? Says Maudsley : * —
“ Could we in imagination trace mankind backward along the path stretching through the ages, on which it has gone forward to its present height and complexity of emotion, and suppose each new emotional element to be given off at the spot where it was acquired, we should view a road along which the fragments of our high, special, and complex feeling were scattered, and should reach a starting-point of the primitive instincts of self preservation and propagation.
“ In the first place, a proper regard to the physical nature of women means attention given, in their training, to their peculiar functions, and» to their fore-ordained work as mothers and nurses of children. Whatever aspirations of an intellectual kind they may have, they cannot be relieved from the performance of those offices so long as it is thought necessary that mankind should continue on earth.”
For woman is reserved, therefore, the distinctive glory and honor of the chief agency in the perpetuity, development, and training of her race. To a distinction so dignified, a
* Sex in Mind and Education, Henry Maudsley, M.D.