derogatory epithets to it in the other. Ce grand original d'Anglais heartily despises those monkeys the French, and knows not at which he stands the more aghast, the awful sansculottism of their institutions or the shocking manner in which they unbosom themselves to the first comer.
Another generic instance is even more ready to our hand. We do not have to go abroad to find it. For it is found world-wide in femininity. So universal is it, and so bound up with the question of trances, that it deserves mention here; especially as I do not recall having seen it scientifically recognized. It is this,—that self is what, psychically, peculiarly distinguishes the sexes. In woman there is a comparative absence of Ego.
With regard to a want of it in woman, doubtless there are persons who will promptly and indignantly deny the fact; certainly all those who are trying their best to-day to make of woman an inferior kind of man may be trusted to do so. But woman is altogether too valuable as she is to be thus disposed of, and it is precisely in her relative lack of self that her value lies. This it is that makes
