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Show AN ASSAULT ON WOMAN'S "SITUATION" hi iliWJ Certain prophets have taught that i tt$ women have no souls and some phll-rfo'i phll-rfo'i " osophers have denied them the same reasoning power as men- As a sorry consolation, the scientists have said ' that her power of perception Is really due to intuition, an element largely lacking in man, but highly developed Oil' in t1G lwer animals True, the French savant, Henri Bergson, Is now engaged in a world-wide controversy contro-versy to establish his theory that all mankind is governed by both reason and intuition. Before bis advent it was generally accepted that woman and Intuition constituted the comple-ir comple-ir ment of man and reason It now appears that man, under the cloak of science, strives even to ; deprive her of this fifth sense, as it Gm were. Smith Ely Jelllffe, M D., asserts as-serts that much of woman's so-called IHI intuition Is in reality due to muscle reading, of which he has made a 1 study. Women, he says, are ou the i lookout for certain torms of muscular muscu-lar reaction and can thus guess what I Is going on in the minds of others, a Their constant contact, too, with I r small children, who characteristically I I show what they are thinking about 3 through their muscles of expression, 9 1b a school of experience with them, j The doctor's argument, speaking In a H haphazard wiay, does not seem to I I bear analysis. If It proves anything, B it in that woman's reason prompts f l her to watch for and interpret inuscu-! inuscu-! I lar actions. Accepting the soundness Hjj of hit) theory means the complete nn- I nihiliatlon of the advocates of the I I Intuitive explanation of feminine I powers. Both views are passed to fJH the psychologists without prejudice, but with the feeling that the recent statement to the effect that the only great philosopher who tried to an alyze the psychology of the female became insane, is entlrelv correct-Commercial correct-Commercial Enquirer. oo |