ne human being, and christened "man;" and all the affections
decanted into another, and labelled "woman." Nature herself rejects this
theory. Darwin himself, the interpreter of nature, shows that there is a
perpetual effort going on, by unseen forces, to equalize the sexes, since
sons often inherit from the mother, and daughters from the father. And we
all take pleasure in discovering in the noblest of each sex something of
the qualities of the other,--the tender affections in great men, the
imperial intellect in great women.

On the whole, there is no harm, but rather good, in the new science of
Cupid-and-Psychology. There are combinations for which no single word can
suffice. The phrase belongs to the same class with Lowell's witty
denunciation of a certain tiresome letter-writer, as being, not his
incubus, but his "pen-and-inkubus." It is as well to admit it first as
last: Cupid-and-Psychology will be taught wherever young men and women
study together. Not in the direct and simple form of mutual love-making,
perhaps; for they tell the visitor, at universities which admit both sexes,
that the young men and maidens do not fall in love with each other, but are
apt to seek their mates elsewhere. The new science has a wider bearing, and
suggests that the brain is incomplete, after all, without the affections;
and so are the affections without the brain. A certain professorship at
Harvard University which the Rev. Dr. Francis G.

Peabody now fills, and which Phillips Brooks was once invited to fill, was
founded by a woman, Miss Plummer; and the name proposed by her for it was
"a professorship of the heart," though they after all called it only a
professorship of "Christian morals." We need the heart in our colleges, it
seems, even if we only get it under the ingenious title of
Cupid-and-Psychology.

SELF-SUPPORTING WIVES

For one, I have never been fascinated by the style of domestic paradise
that English novels depict,--half a dozen unmarried daughters round the
family hearth, all assiduously doing worsted-work and petting their papa. I
believe a sufficiency of employment to be the only normal and healthy
condition for a human being; and where there is not work enough to employ
the full energies of all at home, it seems as proper for young women as for
young birds to leave the parental nest. If this additional work is done for
money, very well. It is the conscious dignity of self-support that removes
the tradit