y not be impossible. To
make any broad statement of the phenomena is to recognize that no
general conclusion is possible. Now and again we come across facts
which group themselves with a certain uniformity, but as we continue,
we find other equally important facts which group themselves with
equal uniformity in another sense. The result produces compensation.'
The question of interest then is, what in nature is peculiar to the
male sex and what to the female? What traits will be true of a boy,
merely because he is a boy, and vice versa? This has been an
extremely difficult question to answer, because of the difficulty
encountered in trying to eliminate the influence of environment and
training. Boys are what they are because of their original nature
plus their surroundings. Some would claim that if we could give boys
and girls the same surroundings, the same social requirements, the
same treatment from babyhood, there would be no difference in the
resulting natures. Training undoubtedly accentuates inborn sex
differences, and it is true that a reversal of training does lessen
this difference; however, the weight of opinion at present is that
differences in intellect and character do exist because of
differences of sex, but that these have been unduly magnified. H.B.
Thompson, in her investigation entitled _The Mental Traits of Sex_,
finds that 'Motor ability in most of its forms is better developed in
men than in women. In strength, rapidity of movement, and rate of
fatigue, they have a very decided advantage, and in precision of
movement a slight advantage.... The thresholds are on the whole lower
in women, discriminative sensibility is on the whole better in
men.... All these differences, however, are slight. As for the
intellectual faculties, women are decidedly superior to men in
memory, and possibly more rapid in associative thinking. Men are
probably superior in ingenuity.... The data on the life of feeling
indicate that there is little, if any, sexual difference in the
degree of domination by emotion, and that social consciousness is
more prominent in men, and religious consciousness in women.'

"Pearson, in his measurement of traits, not by objective tests but by
opinions of people who know the individual, finds that boys are more
athletic, noisy, self-assertive, self-conscious; less popular, duller
in con