Show 13 brain rallia power of womankind but before we ae can form any opinion as I 1 to the fitness of their sex to produce half a dozen immortals in a millennium wo we must first ask if historic and social influences fluen ces have produced a generation of womanly precursors and a group of women of talent out of which tile the missing immortal might havo have emerged it does not cot quite settle the question to say what is no doubt true that it if women hall had stronger brains they might havo have produced both the brains both of men and women exercise ex erciso themselves habitually upon such stuff as the customs of their ago age and race set before them an enormous part of the brain power of mankind has been spent or wasted in smiting tho the philistines hip and thigh an enormous part parr of the brain power of womankind has been spent or wasted in cajoling but tile tho victories of samson pave the way for those of saul and the victories of saul lay the foundations of the throne of solomon tile tho daughters of delilah found no dynasty though they help to upset a good many in other words by following vin the fashion which required men to fight the men on tile the winning side may drift into social and political relations favorable to the growth of civilization while the primitive division of labor which confined con tined woman to to the tent or homestead cut them off as a class from the educational influences of power and free association with PO powerful gerful equals here and there a woman of exceptional capacity and position might appear by chance among tho the rulers ruler 8 of men but the opportunity would be owing to her connection by birth or marriam marriage with tho the privileged pi ft reged class and would make maice no opening corothers fo for others of her ber sex nineteenth century r |