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NOTE TO TUE FIFTH EDITION.

gotten the just and comprehensive signification in which education is used throughout this memoir. Moreover, it may he well to remind the reader, even at the risk of casting a reflection upon his intelligence, that, in these pages, the relation of sex to mature life is not discussed, except in a few passages, in which the large capacities and great power of woman are alluded to, provided the epoch of development is physiologically guided.