Strindberg on the Inferiority of Woman. Woman is inferior to man—so at least says an in teresting article by Strindberg in the Revue Blanche for January last. which attracted much attention in France. The author of ' Pere ' does not arrive at this conclusion by an exclusive analysis of woman's mental qualities; to a great extent he relies upon her structural and anatomical weaknesses. To begin with her blood is not to be compared with man's for it resembles that of the child and of the embryo; her spine to ap proaches theirs in formation being longer and afford ing more evidence of that caudal appendage which is supposed to have been a distinguishing feature of the hairy ancestor of the human race. Woman's skull is closely akin to that of the child and the negro. and the gray matter of the brain is not so dense in the female as in the male. On the other hand her nerves are much stronger whence the capacity for supporting physical pain with comparative stoicism—a capacity which she shares with the savage whose nervous sys tem is somewhat similar. In connection with the in feriority of women Strindberg propounds a strikingly novel theory. In the burial places of the Stone and Iron Ages have been found two different kinds of skulls one brachyocephalous the other dolichocepha lous. It is opined that the first an inferior type are female; the second a superior type male. The women he declares evidently belonged to a lower race the men of which had been exterminated their wives and daughters having been seized by the conquerors. Men then are the descendants of the higher women of the lower race. In France. for instance the women are the descendants of the Celts whom the Romans con quered and from among whom they took their wives as they had previously done in the case of the Sab ines. The motives which cause so many men in the present day to deny the inferiority of women Strindberg deals with at great length. Among them he places intense sexual desire obscuring the fa
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