The muscular system of the male is best developed and more vigorous than that of the female. Woman can also be lighter than man, although she typically seems larger on account of the better growth of her adipose system. THE sentimental pretensions put ahead by a political college which holds that lady is intellectually the equal of man, give a character of actuality to the query of the comparability of the sexes. According to my researches the foot of woman is flatter and less arched than that of man, a truth which girls of trend try to hide by means of excessive heels. A brand new study indicates that a surprisingly excessive number of us are susceptible to sleepwalking. In asylums for the aged, the place ladies aren’t allowed more meals than men, they summary meals from each meal to eat in the intervals, in order to double the number of their meals. Unmistakeable to her number one fan, anyway.
A new guest author blows this one. In keeping with Quetelet, the lady, from fifteen to fifty years of age, makes yet another inspiration a minute than the man. M. Milne-Edwards has discovered the bones of the male a bit richer in inorganic matter than those of the female, and that at thirty years the bones of the man contain more mineral matter, much less natural matter, more carbonate of lime, less phosphate of lime, than those of the girl. The muscular pressure of a girl from twenty-five to thirty years of age, measured in the dynamometer, is a 3rd less than that of a man of the identical age. This query, which it has been the customized to deal with from a metaphysical viewpoint, is to us purely anthropological, or quite zoological; for we propose to indicate by characteristic examples borrowed from the whole animal kingdom that sexuality undergoes the same evolution in all species, together with the human species.
The nutritive phenomena in birds and mammals, including the human species, are more intensive within the male than within the female. To sum up, the 2 sexes, at first unequal in consequence of the superiority of the feminine over the male characterizing the bottom species, develop into equal amongst species slightly more elevated within the animal scale, and turn out to be unequal again in consequence of the pre-eminence of the male over the feminine, which is observed in all the higher species. M. Topinard fixes the typical difference in height between man and girl at twelve centimetres (four and two thirds inches). With a couple of exceptions, the superiority of the females prevails among the annelids, and amongst certain articulates, as bees, hornets, wasps; and feminine butterflies are bigger and heavier than males, a distinction being observable even among the many larva? Diagrams of the feminine brains of different races show that even in essentially the most intelligent populations, as amongst contemporary Parisians, the skulls of a notable proportion of girls more nearly approach the amount of the skulls of sure gorillas than that of the better developed skulls of the male sex. The mind of the male is heavier than that of the female, in a proportion for man fastened by Broca at 1,323 to 1,210 grammes (4634 to 4213 ounces).
Broca has found that the clavicle of the girl is longer in proportion to the humerus; comparable variations are observed between inferior and superior races. The feminine surpasses the male in certain inferior species. The skull of the male is more voluminous than that of the feminine (Sömmering, Parchappe, Broca, Morselli). Dr. Weisbach makes the relative measurement as 1,000 to 878; Morselli, one hundred to 85. The form of the skull also varies with the sex, thai of the man being decrease and longer than that of the girl. This is, nevertheless, no longer the case among the superior vertebrates. The males of birds and mammals are nearly at all times superior to the females. The males are smaller than the females among many cephalopods, and amongst some cirripeds. The respiratory phenomena of males are additionally stronger than those of girls. Within the circulation, the strain of the blood is stronger in the male, though the pulse is much less frequent. The feminine voice is always higher than that of the male, in animals and in man. Woman’s voice is an octave higher than man’s. M. Malassez has discovered 1,000,000 extra pink globules in a cubic millimetre of man’s than of lady’s blood.