Excerpt from The Pedagogical Seminary, Vol. 17: A Quarterly International Record of Educational Literature Institutions and Progress, 1910

Wherever sexes in nature are diclinous, the individuals of one sex compete with those of the other. This is a sound state of things from the point of view of selection. But with the human race it seems as if in the centres of civilization the sexes as such engage in a struggle for life. Whether that promises a healthy state of things is to be doubted.

The question of an equal higher education for both sexes is a modern one. It has different sides, e.g., an ethical one and a social-political one, and I suppose that one does not go far wrong in thinking that the practical social aspect, at least in Europe, has influenced the movement very greatly.

It is not my business to deal with the various sides of the question, I intend to speak of the hygienic point of view and its practical consequences for schools.

Everybody who wishes to get to the bottom of the question must fix his attention upon the secondary sexual characteristics and qualities. I do not wish to go into the matter in all the details so often spoken of, such as the difference of absolute and relative weight of the brain, the density of the cortex of the cerebrum, the difference of specific gravity of the blood, and so on. I may pass over the consideration of these subjects with less hesitation in this country since English possesses the exhaustive book on Man and Woman by Havelock Ellis. But in any case I think I must first of all consider some psychical points.

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