Such movements, moreover, when done as dances, could be carried on three or four times as long without producing fatigue as formal gymnastics.

Many folk-dances were imitative, sowing and reaping dance, dances expressing trade movements (the shoemaker's dance), others illustrating attack and defense, or the pursuit of game.

Such neuro-muscular movements were racially old and fitted in with man's expressive life, and if it were accepted that the folk-dances really expressed an epitome of man's neuro-muscular history, as distinguished from mere permutation of movements, the folk-dance combinations should be preferred on these biological grounds to the unselected, or even the physiologically selected.

From the aesthetic point of view the sense of beauty as shown in dancing was far commoner than the power to sing, paint or model." It must always be remembered that in realizing the especial demands of woman's nature, we do not commit ourselves to the belief that higher education is unfitted for a woman.

That question may now be regarded as settled.