ABSTRACT
The feminists of a generation ago were inclined to minimise the inevitable differences between men and women and to ascribe the differences which are observed to education rather than to nature. They thought that a little feminine tyranny would make men as virtuous as women and a little masculine training would make women as intelligent as men. With these hopes they proceeded to a heroic campaign for the emancipation of women. Their hopes, however, have not been realised. Some assimilation there has been: there is no longer a double standard, but this result has been achieved, so far as the young are concerned, mainly by approximating the standard for women to that for men, not by the opposite process for which the pioneer women hoped. As regards intelligence, the attempts to ignore native differences are beginning to seem a mistake. A great deal of the scholastic education of men is worthless, and it is a pity to inflict it on women. The most important part of men's education is the most masculine, namely, that concerned with science and machinery, and it is this part especially which almost always fails to arouse feminine interest.
