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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 195
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3.—Eraser's Magazine For April. John W. ...
and deductive classification of tlie male and female intellect , and to the assertion of the of the deductive mind in Shakspeare _,
Newtonand Gothe . supremacy The idea is not now for the first time presented , that the imaination has had more to do with the great
discoveries , of the world g than logic , though the arbitrary use of the terms inductive and deductive seems to be a stumbling-block in the
¦ way of many . We quote the author ' s own words in elucidation of these terms :- _^
inductive "In regard will to women remember being that by induction nature assi more gns the deductive first place , and to men particular more you
reasons facts ; deduction wh , y women to prefer general the propositions deductive , or and ideas , if I . may Now so , say there , ideal are method several . and inative than
they They therefore are more emotional live more , more in an enthusiastic ideal world , ; while more men imag and , with their under colder men the , ;
harderand austerer organizations , are more practical more Another dominion , circumstance of facts , to which which they makes consequentl women y more cannot ascribe deductive a higher far is importance that they .
to possess but what more at they once of do what at see an is idea they called and see intuition quicker seek to . . sol Hence They ve a problem they are see suddenl con so stantl y as , y in men tempted contra can - , grasp
distinction to the slower and , more laborious ascent of the inductive investibe than gator proved . men That , is in a women proposition riety are of more which deductive some Indeed persons than nothing men will , because not could relish they prevent , and think yet its q it uicker being may
posterous universall women think y system admitted a is va , obscured called except their ways by the education that fact . that miserable , in the , which remarkable , that valuable contemptible rap things idity are , with that carefull which pre y -
and kept nimble from them minds , and are trifling too often things irretrie carefully vably inj taug ured ht . " to them , until their fine Well said a of female educationthan ¦ which anything more
utterly aimless propos and hopeless it would be difficult to conceive ! MrBuckle would do good service by following up the present
. elegant and comprehensive lecture with one upon Female Education . It is a fertile themeon which he must have many and good things
to say , while the need , of bringing public opinion to bear upon it is dailrowing and strengthening .
Newton y g and Gothe are , as we have said , offered as remarkable examles of the deductive mind in man , referring , of course , to the
discov p ery of the law of gravitation by Sir Isaac Newton , and by Gothe of the great law of metamorphosis in plants , " according to
which the stamens pistils , corollas , bracts , petals , and so forth , of _« very plant , are simply modified leaves . "
on cisel ** a y The skull the same , same which great way was . poet ly Goth ing made e before , strolling another him . in important Suddenl a cemetery y the physical idea near flashed Venice discovery , across stumbled that in pre the his
mind that the skull was composed of vertebras ; in other words , bony the covering ine . This of the luminou head s was idea simpl was y afterwards an expansion adopted of t _" he by bony Oken covering and a few of sp
England other great till naturalists ten years ago in , Germany when Mr ies . of and Owen the France Vertebrate took , . it but up it , Skeleton and was in not , his received snowed very re its in
markable anatomy meaning . and work That purpose on the the as discovery ' contributing Homolog was made towards by a Goth general e late scheme in the of ' p ei hilosop ghteenth hic
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Notices Of Books. 195
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 195
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/51/
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