THE INTELLIGENCE
OF WOMAN
BY
W. L. GEORGE
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1916
Copyright, 1916,
By W. L. George.
All rights reserved
Published, November, 1916
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Intelligence of Woman | 1 |
| II | Feminist Intentions | 61 |
| III | Uniforms for Women | 94 |
| IV | Woman and the Paint Pot | 119 |
| V | The Downfall of the Home | 130 |
| VI | The Break-up of the Family | 165 |
| VII | Some Notes on Marriage | 204 |
I
THE INTELLIGENCE OF WOMAN
1
Men have been found to deny woman an intellect; they have credited herwith instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause andeffect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. But intellect inits broadest sense, the capacity consecutively to plan and steadfastlyto execute, they have often denied her.
The days are not now so dark. Woman has a place in the state, a placeunder, but still a place. Man has recognized her value without coming tounderstand her much better, and so we are faced with a paradox: whileman accords woman an improved social position, he continues to describeher as illogical, petty, jealous, vain, untruthful, disloyal to her ownsex; quite as frequently he charges her with being over-loyal to her own[Pg 2]sex: there is no pleasing him. Also he discerns in this unsatisfactorycreature extreme unselfishness, purity, capacity for self-sacrifice. Itseems that the intelligence of man cannot solve the problem of woman,which is a bad sign in a superior intelligence. The trouble lies inthis: man assumes too readily that woman essentially differs from man.Hardly a man has lived who did not so exaggerate. Nietzsche,Scho