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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    tion. That indeed will generally be found to be a sufficient answer to all their assertions, as will appear in the sequel. From the consideration of sensibility in woman, I should pass briefly to that of her mnTELLECT, using that as a general term, expressing the cere- bral functions. [ have, in my work on Beauty, shown that beauty of the mental or thinking system is less proper to woman than to man—is less feminine than beauty of the vital or nutritive system; and that it is not the mental, but the vital system, which is, and ought to be, most developed in woman.—Still less is it mere cerebral or intellectual, considered apart from mere sensitive beauty, which ought to charac- terize her. It is a fact, that though the organs of sense and anterior part of the brain are larger in woman than in man, the head of woman, on an average, is much smaller than his,—owing of course to the diminished size of the middle and posterior part of the brain and of the cerebel. Now, as energy of function is inseparable from healthy magnitude of organ, this anatomical fact also destroys the absurd speculations of the writers alluded to. Woman’s sensibility and observing faculties are great ; her reasoning faculties are small. It may seem to be in contradiction to this, that