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" The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman - whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. "
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex - Page 564
by Charles Darwin - 1890 - 693 pages
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science

Geology - 1872 - 520 pages
...by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, • than woman can attain—whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands." Accepting this intellectual difference, there are also other differences sufficiently weighty to support...
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A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man, Volume 1

George Harris - Human beings - 1876 - 462 pages
...shown by man attaining to a higher eminence in whatever he takes np than woman can attain— whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands." — Ibid. 3 The substance of this article was read as a paper before the British Association for the...
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The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science: With ..., Volume 6

Elkanah Billings, Bernard James Harrington, James Thomas Donald - Geology - 1872 - 518 pages
...shown by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands." Accepting this intellectual difference, there are also other differences sufficiently weighty to support...
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Darwinism Stated by Darwin Himself: Characteristic Passages from the ...

Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...lower state of civilization. The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and...
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Romantic Love and Personal Beauty: Their Development, Causal Relations ...

Henry T. Finck - Beauty culture - 1887 - 650 pages
..."The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes," says Darwin, " is shown by mini's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes...lists were made of the most eminent men and women in poetiy, painting, sculptni-e, music (inclusive both of composition and performance), history, science,...
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The Evolution of Woman: An Inquiry Into the Dogma of Her Inferiority to Man

Eliza Burt Gamble - Dominance (Psychology) - 1893 - 402 pages
...this subject. He says : " The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and...
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Charles Darwin's Works: The descent of man and seletion in relation to sex

Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 890 pages
...and lower state of civilisation. The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two Bexes is shewn by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and...
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Sociology and Social Progress

Thomas Nixon Carver - History - 1905 - 826 pages
...lower state of civilization. The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and...
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The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Volumes 1-2

Charles Darwin - Science - 1981 - 964 pages
...shewn by man attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than woman can attain — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or...men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture, music, — comprising composition and performance, history, science, and philosophy, with half-a-dozen names...
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Women, the Family, and Freedom: The Debate in Documents, Volume I, 1750-1880

Susan G. Bell, Karen M. Offen - Social Science - 1983 - 588 pages
...a past and lower state of civilisation. The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shewn by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than can woman — whether requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use of the senses and...
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