ore than in
man, combined with persevering tenacity, predominates over
intelligence; but sentiments represent everywhere and always the
conservative element in the human mind.

This is why woman is the strongest supporter of dogmas, customs,
fashions, prejudices and mysticism. It is not that she herself is more
disposed than man to mystic beliefs, but these when once dogmatized
dazzle the eyes of the suffering with visions of compensation in a
better world. In this way a number of unhappy or disappointed women
are affected with religious exaltation and thus cling to the hope of
happiness after death which they believe will compensate them for the
vicissitudes of their existence.

The other reverses of the feminine character, such as want of logic,
obstinacy, love of trinkets, etc., result from the fundamental
weakness of the feminine mind which we have just analyzed. Moreover,
the social dependence in which man has placed woman, both from the
legal and educational points of view, tend to increase her failings.
Many people fear that women's suffrage would hinder progress, for the
reasons we have just indicated, but they forget that the actual
suffrage of men is to a great extent exercised by their wives,
indirectly and unconsciously. This fact alone shows that the
education, and legal emancipation of women can only be beneficial to
progress, especially as they would contribute to the education of men,
too prone to degenerate on account of their presumptuous and
tyrannical autocracy.

Woman has an instinctive admiration for men of high intellect and
lofty sentiments, and strives to imitate those who provoke her
admiration, and carry out their ideas. Let us therefore give women
their proper rights, equal to ours, at the same time giving them a
higher education and the same free instruction as ourselves; we shall
then see them abandon the obscure paths of mysticism, to devote
themselves to social progress.

=Jealousy in Woman.=--Other irradiations of love in woman are similar
to those of man. Jealousy is perhaps not much less developed in woman
than in man. It is less brutal and violent but more instinctive and
persevering; it manifests itself by quarrels, needle pricks,
chicanery, petty tyrannies and all kinds of tricks which poison
existence as much as man's jealousy, and are quite as inefficient
against infidelity. In the highest degree of passion the jealous man
uses violence or resorts to firearms, while the woma