Neither can
occupy the position, nor perform the functions, of the other.
Their several vocations are perfectly distinct. Woman exists on
her own account, as man does on his, at the same time that each
has intimate relations with the other. Humanity needs both for
the purposes of the race, and in every consideration of social
progress both must necessarily be included.
Though companions and equals, yet, as regards the measure of their
powers, they are unequal. Man is stronger, more muscular, and of
rougher fibre; woman is more delicate, sensitive, and nervous.
The one excels in power of brain, the other in qualities of heart;
and though the head may rule, it is the heart that influences.
Both are alike adapted for the respective functions they have to
perform in life; and to attempt to impose woman's work upon man
would be quite as absurd as to attempt to impose man's work upon
woman. Men are sometimes womanlike, and women are sometimes
manlike; but these are only exceptions which prove the rule.
Although man's qualities belong more to the head, and woman's more
to the heart--yet it is not less necessary that man's heart
should be cultivated as well as his head, and woman's head
cultivated as well as her heart. A heartless man is as much out-
of-keeping in civilized society as a stupid and unintelligent
woman. The cultivation of all parts of the moral and intellectual
nature is requisite to form the man or woman of healthy and well-
balanced character.
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