WOMEN'S BRAINS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPICTATOE."]
those of our medical authorities who dwell so strongly on the inferiority of women's brains to men's, tell us from what class of women they draw their information ? Have they ever analysed the brains of educated women, or do they take their standard from the pitiable failures and waifs of our civilisation who find a friendless death-bed in the workhouse infirmary or the prison? If so, it is well to remember that about 30 per cent. of women in rescue-homes prove to be below par in intellect. And in any case, does such a verdict apply to better-developed women, any more than the measure- ment of the muscular power of the sedentary clerk to the gymnast? There is, of course, a similar kind of divergence between the high and tow type of man. But one would be disposed to imagine that more men than women go to the bad from misuse of brain-power ; and also that, as the worst women seem morally worse than the worst men, while the best are frequently better, so (granting parity in brain-power, when properly developed) the feebler brains in women would have less power than the feebler brains in men.—I am, Sir, &c., DRAGON.
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