_Id._... “From all we know of the laws of life and its development it would appear one of the foolishest things on earth for men to fancy that they can debase the intellect lobes of women, and at the same time exalt their own. No breeder of cattle or horses would think of debasing the qualities, in the females, which he would desire to possess in the males. “No race in the future can either rule the world or even continue in existence without improving the intellect of that race, and this certainly cannot be done by depauperising the intellects of more than half of the _progenitors_ of that race.”—Dr. E. Bonavia (“Woman’s Frontal Lobes”). 8.—“.... _Earth’s advancing queen_.” “Will man den ganzen Menschen studiren, so darf man nur auf das weibliche Geschlecht seine Augen richten: denn wo die Kraft schwacher ist, da ist das Werkzeug um so künstlicher. Daher hat die Natur in das weibliche Geschlecht eine natürliche Anlage zur Kunst gelegt. _Der Mann ist geschaffen, ueber die Natur zu gebieten, das Weib aber, den Mann zu regieren._ Zum Ersten gehört viel Kraft, zum Andern viel Geschicklichkeit.”—Immanuel Kant. LVII. 1.—“... _in jealousy_ ...” The male conceit and jealousy of sex, existent among the majority of meaner men, has been perceived and censured or satirised by higher masculine minds both in ancient and modern literature. To take a few scattered instances from the latter, Shakespeare says:— “... however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and infirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won Than women’s are.” —(“Twelfth Night,” Act II., Sc. 4.) Goethe says pungently (in “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”): “People ridicule learned women and dislike even women who are well informed, probably because it is considered impolite to put so many ignorant men to shame.” As our own plain-spoken Sydney Smith has said, in his essay on Female Education:—“It is natural that men who are ignorant themselves, should view, with some degree of jealousy and alarm, any proposal for improving the education of women.” A ludicrously pitiful modern-day instance of the jealous ignorance or ignorant jealousy to which Goethe and Sydney Smith make reference, is afforded by a seriously-written leading article in No. 545 of the _Christian Commonwealth_, a London weekly newspaper, under date of 24th March, 1892:—