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better result of intellectual aud moral powei in the nineteenth century, than the analogous class of Orientals exhibited. Clinical illustrations of this type of arrested growth might be given, but my pen refuses the ungracious task.
Another result of the present methods of educating girls, and one different from any of the preceding, remains to be noticed. Schools and colleges, as we have seen, require girls to work their brains with full force and sustained power, at the time when their organization periodically requires a portion of their force for the performance of a periodical function, and a portion of their power for the building up of a peculiar, complicated, and important mechanism, — the engine within an engine. They are required to do two
I venture to propose the term agene (a without, yevof sex) as an appropriate designation for the new development. Count Gasparin prophesies it thus : “ Quelque chose de monstreux» cet etre repugnant, qui dejä parait a notre horizon,” a free translation of Virgil’s earlier description : —
“ Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademtum.”
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