Note: Images of the original pages are available through theHome Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History,Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University. Seehttp://hearth.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=hearth;idno=4765412+------------------------------------------------------------+| Transcriber's Notes: || || A number of obvious typographical errors have been || corrected in this text. For a complete list, please || see the end of this document. || || This document has inconsistent hyphenation. || || Greek has been transliterated and marked with + marks || |+------------------------------------------------------------+SEX IN EDUCATION;Or, A Fair Chance for Girls.byEDWARD H. CLARKE, M.D.,Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society;Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;Late Professor of Materia Medica in Harvard College,Etc., Etc.Boston:James R. Osgood and Company,(Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.)1875.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, byEdward H. Clarke,In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at WashingtonBoston:Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co."An American female constitution, which collapses just in themiddle third of life, and comes out vulcanized India-rubber,if it happen to live through the period when health andstrength are most wanted."OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Autocrat of the Breakfast Table_."He reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it camebefore him, _womanhood_.... What a woman should demand isrespect for her as she is a woman. Let her first lesson be,with sweet Susan Winstanley, _to reverence her sex_."CHARLES LAMB: _Essays of Elia_.
"We trust that the time now approaches when man's conditionshall be progressively improved by the force of reason andtruth, when the brute part of nature shall be crushed, thatthe god-like spirit may unfold."GUIZOT: _History of Civilization_, I., 34.CONTENTS.PART I.INTRODUCTORY 11PART II.CHIEFLY PHYSIOLOGICAL 31PART III.CHIEFLY CLINICAL 61PART IV.CO-EDUCATION 118PART V.THE EUROPEAN WAY 162PREFACE.About a year ago the author was honored by an invitation to addressthe New-England Women's Club in Boston. He accepted the invitation,and selected for his subject the relation of sex to the education ofwomen. The essay excited an unexpected amount of discussion. Briefreports of it found their way into the public journals. Teachers andothers interested in the education of girls, in different parts of thecountry, who read these reports, or heard of them, made inquiry, byletter or otherwise, respecting it. Various and conflicting criticismswere passed upon it. This manifestation of interest in a brief andunstudied lecture to a small club appeared to the author to indicate ageneral appreciation of the importance of the theme he had chosen,compelled him to review carefully the statements he had made, and hasemboldened him to think that their publication in a more comprehensiveform, with added physiological details and clinical illustrations,might contribute something, however little, to the cause of soundeducation. Moreover, his own conviction, not only of the importance ofthe subject, but of the soundness of the conclusions he has reached,and of the necessity of bringing physiological facts and lawsprominently to the notice of all who are interested in education,conspires with the interest excited by the theme of his lecture tojustify him in presenting these pages to the public. The leisure ofhis last professional vacation has been devoted to their preparation.
The original address, with the exception of a few verbal alterations,is incorporated into them.Great plainness of speech will be observed throughout this essay. Thenature of the subject it discusses, the general misapprehension bothof the strong and weak points in the physiology of the woman question,and the ignorance displayed by many, of what the co-education of thesexes really means, all forbid that ambiguity of language or euphemismof expression should be employed in the discussion. The subject istreated solely from the standpoint of physiology. Technical termshave been employed, only where their use is more exact or lessoffensive than common ones.If the publication of this brief memoir does nothing more than excitediscussion and stimulate investigation with regard to a matter of suchvital moment to the nation as the relation of sex to education, theauthor will be amply repaid for the time and labor of its preparation.No one can appreciate more than he its imperfections. Notwithstandingthese, he hopes a little good may be extracted from it, and socommends it to the consideration of all who desire the _best_education of the sexes.BOSTON, 18 ARLINGTON STREET, October, 1873.PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.The demand for a second edition of this book in little more than aweek after the publication of the first, indicates the interest whichthe public take in the relation of Sex to Education, and justifies theauthor in appealing to physiology and pathology for light upon thevexed question of the appropriate education of girls. Excepting a fewverbal alterations, and the correction of a few typographical errors,there is no difference between this edition and the first. The authorwould have been glad to add to this edition a section upon therelation of sex to women's work in life, after their technicaleducation is completed, but has not had time to do so.BOSTON, 18 ARLINGTON STREET,Nov. 8, 1873.NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.The attention of the reader is called to the definition of "education"on the twentieth page. It is there stated, that, throughout thisessay, education is not used in the limited sense of mental orintellectual training alone, but as comprehending the whole manner oflife, physical and psychical, during the educational period; that is,following Worcester's comprehensive definition, as comprehendinginstruction, discipline, manners, and habits. This, of course,includes home-life and social life, as well as school-life; balls andparties, as well as books and recitations; walking and riding, as muchas studying and sewing. When a remission or intermission is necessary,the parent must decide what part of education shall be remitted oromitted,--the walk, the ball, the school, the party, or all of these.
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