Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART III. CHIEFLY CLINICAL. "Et Ton nous persuadera difflcilement que lorsque les hommes ont tant de peine a fitre hommes, lea femmes puis- aent, tout en restant femmes, devenir hommes aussi, mettant ainsi la main sur les deux roles, exercant la double mission, rc'sumant le double caractere de I'humamte! Nous perdrons la femme, et nous n'aurons pas 1'homme. Voila ce qui nous arrivera. On nous donnera ce quelque chose de inon- streux, cet etre repugnant, qui deja parait ii notre horizon." ? Le Comte A. De Gasparin. "Facts given in evidence are premises from which a conclusion is to be drawn. The first step in the exercise of this duty is to acquire a belief of the truth of the facts." ? Ram, on Facts. Clinical observation confirms the teachings of physiology. The sick chamber, not the schoolroom; the physician's private con=- saltation, 7iot the committee's public examination ; the hospital, not the college, theworkshop, or the parlor, ? disclose the sad results which modern social customs, modern education, and modern ways of labor, have entailed on women. Examples of them may be found in every walk of life. On the luxurious couches of Beacon Street; in the palaces of Fifth Avenue; among the classes of our private, common, and normal schools; among the female graduates of our colleges; behind the counters of Washington Street and Broadway; in our factories, workshops, and homes, ? may be found numberless pale, weak, neuralgic, dyspeptic, hysterical, men- orraghic, dysmenorrhosic girls and women, that are living illustrations of the truth of this brief monograph. It is not asserted here that improper methods of study, and a disregard of the reproductive apparatus and its functions, during the educational life of girls, are the sole causes of female diseases; neither is ...Read More