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The Evolution of Woman an Inquiry into the Dogma of her Inferiority to Man

1894

ix As has been stated the object of this volume is to set forth the principal data brought forward by naturalists bearing on the subject of the origin and development of the two lines of sexual demarcation and by means of the facts observed by explorers among peoples in the various stages of development to trace as far as possible the effect of such differentiation upon the individual and u [...] As among all the animals in which there has been a separation of the sexes there has been established a division of labor the consequent specialization of ogans and the differentiation of parts foim the true line of demarcation in the march of the two diverging coumns. [...] Concerning the origin of sex in the individual orgaism little seems to be known ; as a result however of observations on the development of the reproductive organs in the higher vertebrates and especially in birds it is believed that there exists a strict parallelism btween the individual and the racial history "—that the three main stages in the development of the chick viz. [...] So also shall we obtain the groundwork for a true conception of the relations oftmind and the nervous system.' We have seen that the nervous system not only reglates most of the existing functions of the body but that it has indirectly influenced the development of various bodily structures and certain mental qualities and that these powers of mind depend on the development of the brain. [...] In a consideration therefore of this question of sex development and the origin of the progressive principle if as we are assured sympathy constitutes the foundtion-stone of the social instincts and if it is to these instincts that we are to look for the origin of the moral sense or conscience—a faculty which constitutes the fundamental difference between the human species and the lower
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Cover
i-i Eliza Gamble view
Frontmatter
i-iv Eliza Gamble view
Preface
v-ix Eliza Gamble view
Part I. The Theory of Evolution
1-79 Eliza Gamble view
Part II. Prehistoric Society
80-232 Eliza Gamble view
Part III. Early Historic Society
233-341 Eliza Gamble view
Conclusion
342-350 Eliza Gamble view
Index
351-356 Eliza Gamble view

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