Sex in Education, by Edward H Clarke

PART I.PART II.PART III.PART IV.PART V.

Sex in Education, by Edward H. Clarke

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Sex in Education, by Edward H. Clarke1

Economics Archive: Research, Tradition and History, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University(http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/)Note: Images of the original pages are available through the Home Economics Archive: Research, Traditionand 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 | seethe end of this document.| This document has inconsistent hyphenation.| Greek has been transliterated and marked with + marksSEX 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; LateProfessor of Materia Medica in Harvard College, Etc., Etc.Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, (Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.) 1875. Enteredaccording to Act of Congress, in the year 1873, by Edward H. Clarke, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington Boston: Stereotyped and Printed by Rand, Avery, & Co."An American female constitution, which collapses just in the middle third of life, and comes out vulcanizedIndia-rubber, if it happen to live through the period when health and strength are most wanted." OLIVERWENDELL HOLMES:

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

."He reverenced and upheld, in every form in which it came before him,

womanhood

.... What a woman shoulddemand is respect for her as she is a woman. Let her first lesson be, with sweet Susan Winstanley,

toreverence her sex

." CHARLES LAMB:

Essays of Elia

."We trust that the time now approaches when man's condition shall be progressively improved by the force of reason and truth, when the brute part of nature shall be crushed, that the god-like spirit may unfold."GUIZOT:

History of Civilization

, I., 34.CONTENTS.* PART I.* INTRODUCTORY 11* PART II.* CHIEFLY PHYSIOLOGICAL 31* PART III.* CHIEFLY CLINICAL 61* PART IV.

Sex in Education, by Edward H. Clarke2

* CO-EDUCATION 118* PART V.* THE EUROPEAN WAY 162PREFACE.About a year ago the author was honored by an invitation to address the New-England Women's Club inBoston. He accepted the invitation, and selected for his subject the relation of sex to the education of women.The essay excited an unexpected amount of discussion. Brief reports of it found their way into the public journals. Teachers and others interested in the education of girls, in different parts of the country, who readthese reports, or heard of them, made inquiry, by letter or otherwise, respecting it. Various and conflictingcriticisms were passed upon it. This manifestation of interest in a brief and unstudied lecture to a small clubappeared to the author to indicate a general appreciation of the importance of the theme he had chosen,compelled him to review carefully the statements he had made, and has emboldened him to think that theirpublication in a more comprehensive form, with added physiological details and clinical illustrations, mightcontribute something, however little, to the cause of sound education. Moreover, his own conviction, not onlyof the importance of the subject, but of the soundness of the conclusions he has reached, and of the necessityof bringing physiological facts and laws prominently to the notice of all who are interested in education,conspires with the interest excited by the theme of his lecture to justify him in presenting these pages to thepublic. The leisure of his last professional vacation has been devoted to their preparation. The originaladdress, with the exception of a few verbal alterations, is incorporated into them.Great plainness of speech will be observed throughout this essay. The nature of the subject it discusses, thegeneral misapprehension both of the strong and weak points in the physiology of the woman question, and theignorance displayed by many, of what the co-education of the sexes really means, all forbid that ambiguity of language or euphemism of expression should be employed in the discussion. The subject is treated solely fromthe standpoint of physiology. Technical terms have 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 excite discussion and stimulate investigationwith regard to a matter of such vital moment to the nation as the relation of sex to education, the author willbe amply repaid for the time and labor of its preparation. No one can appreciate more than he itsimperfections. Notwithstanding these, he hopes a little good may be extracted from it, and so commends it tothe 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 a week after the publication of the first,indicates the interest which the public take in the relation of Sex to Education, and justifies the author inappealing to physiology and pathology for light upon the vexed question of the appropriate education of girls.Excepting a few verbal alterations, and the correction of a few typographical errors, there is no differencebetween this edition and the first. The author would have been glad to add to this edition a section upon therelation of sex to women's work in life, after their technical education is completed, but has not had time to doso.BOSTON, 18 ARLINGTON STREET, Nov. 8, 1873.NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.