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Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / By Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1840
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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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    of woman depends not only (as I have elsewhere shown) her feebler volition, but her feebler capa- bility of attention and her muscular weakness. 15. The showing that from all this and the varying states of her vital system, result woman’s incapability of reasoning—generalizing, forming trains of connected ideas, judging, persevering, as well as her greater tendency to insanity ; 16. The proving not merely that the power of reasoning is incompatible with the organization of woman, but that great mental exertion is injurious to her, and that a vast mental superiority would ensure her suffering and misery ; 17. The showing that woman’s perception of what is fitting, her politeness, her vanity, her affec- tions, her sentiments, her dependence on and knowledge of man, her love, her artifice, her caprice, being chiefly instinctive, reach the highest degree of perfection; whereas her friendship, her philanthropy, her patriotism and her politics, re- quiring the exercise of reason, are so feeble as to be worthless ; 18. The explanation of the consequences of female representation ; 19. The illustration of female sovereignty in the character of Queen Elizabeth; 20. The proving that monogamy is a natural institution as to the human race ;