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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    from the mother and the backhead from the father: it amounts only to f of an inch. But, as in the preceding case, in measuring from before one ear to before the other, the male no longer exceeds the female, as in two of the other dimen- sions—the female equals him, and is therefore, in that dimension, proportionally larger—the measure in both being 11 inches and j, and the observing faculties being absolutely equal in both, or re- latively to other faculties larger in the female. Other cases have afforded me similar results. In taking measurements of this kind, a source of fallacy may occur to those who have not read my work entitled Intermarriage.—In that work, it is shown that one parent always gives the fore- head, and the other parent the backhead, to their common progeny. It is evident therefore that if, in one parent, the forehead be large and the back- head small, and if, in the other parent, the forehead be small and the backhead large, their child may have the large forehead of one and the large back- head of the other, or it may have the small fore- head of one and the small backhead of the other. When, accoi'dingly, the parents give their smaller portions to the male and their larger portions to the female, that, to a hasty observer, may seem to be a contradiction of the general law of the smaller development of the female head.