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Show genius, as also that kind of effort which we call sustained executive power. While women are not so far differentiated from men that they cannot enter with pleasure into in-to men's works, and, often in a great measure, share in their productions, it remains a fact that it is man's particular organization which is alone capable either of the highest manifestations of genius or the most sustained exhibition of energy. Whether it will always be so we do not know, for we cannot peer into the future. It is sufficient 'hat it not only is so now, but that it always has been so, and that science does give us some good grounds for believing be-lieving that the fact is deeply rooted root-ed in the very structure of sex. London Spectator. HUMAN BRAINS. How Science Views the Difference Between Men and Women. The weightier brain would seem also to indicate, a priori, the greater great-er intellectual power, and this, too, is borne out by undoubted facts. Women, it has often been said, have yet to produce their Newton, their Dante, their Aristotle, their Pascal, thpir flnpthp Thp assert inn is verv feebly met by the contention that women's education, has been for centuries neglected. It was not education which enabled en-abled Pascal as a child to see his way through which one man in 1,000 can understand afrer prolonged prolong-ed mental drill. It was not education educa-tion which gave the race its great min poets. "They lisped in numbers num-bers for the numbers came." But where are their feminine equals? We will, however, take an art in which women have enjoyed far more training than men the art of music. There are some excellent women pianists and violinists, but where are tne temaie mens, neetno ens, Mozarts and Wagners? Nature only can explain, the absence of great women composers as of the feminine compeers of Titian and Raphael, the technique of whose art seems peculiarly fitted to women. Nature tells us that she cannot form the matrix out of which commanding com-manding intellectual geniuses of the female sex would proceed. Why this is so we may partly guess, bu cannot wholly know. We see that nature has divided the world into! sexes for her own purposes, and that to each sex peculiar functions are assigned. We see that the physiological physio-logical functions of women, necessitate necess-itate a different anatomv from that of man, and we infer that these functions and this structure preclude, pre-clude, speaking generally, the kind of effort which we call supreme |