I believe that young mothers sometimes, before parting with their children, impress upon them some indelible mark by which it may be possible hereafter to recognise them; but such recognitions seldom occur.

Maternal affection is discountenanced as a purely animal instinct, a survival from a lower grade of organisation, and does not generally outlast a ten years' separation; while paternal love is utterly scouted as an absurdity to which even the higher animals are not subject.

Boys are kept in the public establishments until the age of twelve, those from ten to twelve being separated from the younger ones and passing through the higher education in separate colleges.
The girls are educated apart till they complete their tenth year, and are almost invariably married in the course of the next.

At first, under the influence of the theory of sexual equality, both received their intellectual instruction in the same classes and passed through the same examinations.

Separation was soon found necessary; but still girls passed through the same intellectual training as their brothers.
Experience, however, showed that this would not answer.