Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1839
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WOMAN PHYSIOLOGICALLY CONSIDERED AS TO MIND, MORALS, MARRIAGE, ETC., ETC. PA Trike MIND. As all the actions of Woman are dependent on the operations of her MinD, it must be obvious that a brief philosophical and physiological considera- tion of these, is here a necessary preliminary to matters of lighter and more popular interest. Mind is a general term expressing the aggregate of the acts or functions performed by the nervous organs situated chiefly in the head; just as life isa general term expressing the aggregate of the acts or functions performed by the tubular organs of which the central and greater masses occupy the trunk. In darker ages, artful or ignorant men, not con- ? pen B