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Brisbane, Arthur, 1864-1936

"Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers"

It annoys them to tell them that a million
autopsies prove fundamental differences between male and female
brains in favor of the former--at least as regards volume and
depth of cerebral convolutions.
Sometimes, after you have listened to a proud, high-spirited
woman trying to prove that women would equal men in material
accomplishment, if only they had a chance, you get so sad that
you find yourself helping her out--digging up De Sevignes,
De Staels, and other "great" women who have made up in brains
for what they perhaps lacked in femininity. ----
It is necessary to bear in mind that this earth, when man was
turned loose upon it, was really a sort of desert island. It was
a conglomeration of swamps, forests, deserts--all filled with
wild beasts. Even the human beings, struggling feebly toward
better days, were not far from the beasts at first. (They are
not very far from them even now.)
Two kinds of work had to be done. The men had to fight, dig,
hunt, drain marshes and murder each other.
The women had to SUPPLY THE MEN to do all the working and
fighting and killing.
Beasts, wars, fevers killed off the sons of women almost as fast
as they could bear them. Women must supply the demand for
soldiers and workers and at the same time a surplus big enough to
populate the globe.


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