PREFACE.
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from the standpoint of physiology. Technical terms have heen employed, only where their use is more exact or less offensive than common ones.
If the publication of this brief memoir does nothing more than excite discussion and stimulate investigation with regard to a matter of such vital moment to the nation as the relation of sex to education, the author will be amply repaid for the time and labor of its preparation. No one can appreciate more than he its imperfections. Notwithstanding these, he hopes a little good may he extracted from it, and so commends it to the consideration of all who desire the best education of the sexes.
Boston, 18 Abljngton Stbf.et, October, 1873.