To test Nature's original intentions, it is always safe to
study our cousins the animals. There we see no sign of this
fundamental variation; the difference is merely one of degree."
"I quite agree with you," said the Girton Girl. "Man, acquiring
cunning, saw the advantage of using his one superiority, brute
strength, to make woman his slave. In all other respects she is
undoubtedly his superior."
"In a woman's argument," I observed, "equality of the sexes
invariably does mean the superiority of woman."
"That is very curious," added the Philosopher. "As you say, a woman
never can be logical."
"Are all men logical?" demanded the Girton Girl.
"As a class," replied the Minor Poet, "yes."
CHAPTER II
"What woman suffers from," said the Philosopher, "is over-praise.
It has turned her head."
"You admit, then, that she has a head?" demanded the Girton Girl.
"It has always been a theory of mine," returned the Philosopher,
"that by Nature she was intended to possess one. It is her admirers
who have always represented her as brainless."
"Why is it that the brainy girl invariably has straight hair?" asked
the Woman of the World.
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