Dr. Paul Bousfield in Sex and Civilization (Kegan Paul) set
out to prove that there is no radical inferiority, even in physique, in womankind : .that few of. the .distinguishing characteristics which we call " feminine " have any necessary attachment to women. We have built up a civilization, he thinks, in which, more and more, men have admired degenerate traits in women, weaknesses, vanities, and senti- mentalities. We have kept them from spending their energies in the world, have turned them in upon themselves, and have so compelled them to occupy themselves with comparatively trivial work and uncreative fancies. Dr. Bousfield argues well and with much leaining ; but we think it unfortunate that he has not spent more time upon explaining what in fact are the necessary differences between male and female, and how their separate qualities may be best turned to use.
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