This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...seems indubitable though its exact amount can not be even roughly estimated. Not only the superiority in tests of perceptual power and the greater suggestibility which we have noted, but also the relative frequency of dreams, trance states and emotional outbreaks and the common differences between our treatment of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...seems indubitable though its exact amount can not be even roughly estimated. Not only the superiority in tests of perceptual power and the greater suggestibility which we have noted, but also the relative frequency of dreams, trance states and emotional outbreaks and the common differences between our treatment of the men and of the women with whom we are associated, witness to it. In his evidence for the discussions of the primitive nature of women Mr. Ellis seems to have physique in view primarily. How far women resemble uncivilized races and children in mental make-up is, to me at least, not at all clear. The same author emphasizes, as so many others have done, the fact of female dependence or lack of aggressiveness in intellect. The qualities that we call original, constructive, organizing and critical are ill defined and comparisons are hard to arrange because men and women have devoted the active power of the intellect to such different fields. Comparison of the most eminent representatives from both sexes is obviously unfair in so far as men are more variable. If we are to believe the novelists and playwrights, women are more concerned with their own feelings and personalities than men, are emotionally more subjective. This is not inconsistent with the existence of greater sympathy of the motherly sort, nor with the possibly superior gifts of men in the examination and intellectual manipulation of subjective conditions. An interesting bit of evidence supports the conventional view of fiction. Many people carry on as a systematic day dream a continued story in which they figure and which possesses its interest from the chance it gives to think pleasantly of oneself. According to Learoyd '96 three and a half times as many women as men do this (46.7 per...
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