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Identifier: scienceofeugenic00hadd (find matches)
Title: The science of eugenics and sex life, the regeneration of the human race ..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hadden, Walter J Robinson, Charles H Melendy, Mary Ries, 1842- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Eugenics Marriage Beauty, Personal Women
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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42 LIFE-CENTEBS. Few skulls of the female fail to show this peculiarity, which islacking, as a rule, in the male. Phrenologists and scientists generallyagree that Nature has thereby put her mark upon woman as the moremoral, the more conscientious and more highly developed in the spir-itual qualities. Here, in the loftiest portion of her cranial constructionshe is proclaimed superior to man in many of the finer and highersentiments which distinguish the human race from the brute creation.
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CONVOLUTIONS AND FISSURESOF THE OUTER SURFACE OFTHE SPHERICAL HEMISPHERE. The average brain and skull of the man is about one-tenth largerthan that of the woman. But it is now generally admitted that thesize and weight of the brain as a whole do not absolutely determineintellectual capacity. Fineness and purity of tissue are also to beconsidered, as well as the relative proportion of the gray to the white LIFE-CENTEES. 4i matter. In all these points woman appears to be more graciously en-dowed than man. Bearing directly upon this point of size and weight as a measureof intellectual capacity is the case of a certain Munich physiologist ofnote who, after years of wide investigation, attempted to uphold theungallant claim that woman must necessarily be inferior to man be-cause of her smaller brain. Others protested that in comparison with the total weight of her body herbrain was even heavier. The pluckyGerman, however, insisted upon hispoint, his weightof the averagefemale brain be-ing

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