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Title: The Intelligence of Woman

Author: W. L. George

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Language: English

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THE INTELLIGENCE
OF WOMAN

BY

W. L. GEORGE

[Illustration]

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

1916

_Copyright, 1916_,

BY W. L. GEORGE.

_All rights reserved_

Published, November, 1916

Norwood Press

Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE INTELLIGENCE OF WOMAN 1

II FEMINIST INTENTIONS 61

III UNIFORMS FOR WOMEN 94

IV WOMAN AND THE PAINT POT 119

V THE DOWNFALL OF THE HOME 130

VI THE BREAK-UP OF THE FAMILY 165

VII SOME NOTES ON MARRIAGE 204

I

THE INTELLIGENCE OF WOMAN

1

Men have been found to deny woman an intellect; they have credited her
with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and
effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. But intellect in
its broadest sense, the capacity consecutively to plan and steadfastly
to execute, they have often denied her.

The days are not now so dark. Woman has a place in the state, a place
under, but still a place. Man has recognized her value without coming to
understand her much better, and so we are faced with a paradox: while
man accords woman an improved social position, he continues to describe
her as illogical, petty, jealous, vain, untruthful, disloyal to her own
sex; quite as frequently he charges her with being over-loyal to he