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86 excellence, which will supply the finer instincts essential under such circumstances.

The female human animal should be as strong in proportion to the male as is the female of lower animals. That the average woman falls far below this standard, no one will deny. The female cat, dog, horse or lion is but little weaker than the male of their own species, and in a race can usually run about as fast as the male. Woman should be as strong in comparison with man.

"Our young women, how miserably sexed, physically. Few are two-thirds grown. Most are dwarfed, rendered too small to be of much practical account, by excessive brain and deficient bodily action. Scan the forms of these pocket Venuses. Nearly all are deficient in bust and pelvis, meagre in face and limb, narrow and round-shouldered, humpbacked, crooked-backed, stooping, too fat, unless too lean, with their breast bones caved in, short ribs meeting or overlapping, bowels small or knotted; faces painted, besides. What a damaging confession that they need