Those girls who distinguished themselves in the examinations were, with scarcely an exception, found unattractive as wives and unfit to be mothers.

A very much larger number, a number increasing in every generation, suffered unmistakably from the severity of the mental discipline to which they were subjected.

The advocates of female equality made a very hard fight for equal culture; but the physical consequences were perfectly clear and perfectly intolerable.

When a point was reached at which one half the girls of each generation were rendered invalids for life, and the other half protected only by a dense stupidity or volatile idleness which no school punishments could overcome, the Equalists were driven from one untenable point to another, and forced at last to demand a reduction of the masculine standard of education to the level of feminine capacities.

Upon this ground they took their last stand, and were hopelessly beaten.