n that there is any organic relation between the brain of the
female and the production of art in the form of fiction, as that there
is an organic relation between the hand of woman and a typewriting
machine. Both the creative writer and the typist, in their respective
spheres, are merely finding outlets for their powers in the direction of
least resistance. The tendency of women at the present day to undertake
certain forms of labour, proves only that in the crabbed, walled-in,
and bound conditions surrounding woman at the present day, these are the
lines along which action is most possible to her.

It may possibly be that in future ages, when the male and female forms
have been placed in like intellectual conditions, with like stimuli,
like training, and like rewards, that some aptitudes may be found
running parallel with the line of sex function when humanity is viewed
as a whole. It may possibly be that, when the historian of the future
looks back over the history of the intellectually freed and active
sexes for countless generations, that a decided preference of the female
intellect for mathematics, engineering, or statecraft may be made clear;
and that a like marked inclination in the male to excel in acting,
music, or astronomy may by careful and large comparison be shown. But,
for the present, we have no adequate scientific data from which to draw
any conclusion, and any attempt to divide the occupations in which male
and female intellects and wills should be employed, must be to attempt
a purely artificial and arbitrary division: a division not more rational
and scientific than an attempt to determine by the colour of his eyes
and the shape and strength of his legs, whether a lad should be an
astronomer or an engraver. Those physical differences among mankind
which divide races and nations--not merely those differences, enormously
greater as they are generally, than any physical differences between
male and female of the same race, which divide the Jew and the Swede,
the Japanese and the Englishman, but even those subtle physical
differences which divide closely allied races such as the English and
German--often appear to be allied with certain subtle differences in
intellectual aptitudes. Yet even with regard to these differences, it
is almost impossible to determine scientifically in how far they are the
result of national traditions, environment, and education, and in how
far the result of real differences in