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feminine organization. Indeed, I have somewhere encountered an author who boldly affirms the superiority of women to all existences on this planet, because of the complexity of their organization. Without undertaking to indorse such an opinion, it may be affirmed, that an appropriate method of education for girls — one that should not ignore the mechanism of their bodies or blight any of their vital organs — would yield a better result than the world has yet seen.
Gail Hamilton’s statement is true, that, “ a girl can go to school, pursue all the studies which Dr. Todd enumerates, except ad infinitum ; know them, not as well as a chemist knows chemistry or a botanist botany, but as well as they are known by boys of her age and training, as well, indeed, as they are known by many college-taught men, enough, at least, to be a solace and a resource to her; then graduate before she is eighteen, and come out of school as healthy, as fresh, as eager, as she went in.” * But it is not true
* Woman’s Wrongs, p. 59.