Sex and Education Author:Julia Ward Howe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VII. BY ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS. The only really serious thing about Dr. Clarke's book is the confusion of the author's ideas as to the precise defining li... more »ne between a work adapted to popular instruction and a medical treatise. An author who forgets in the drawing-room and at the fireside that he is not in the lecture-room of the medical school, has put himself beyond the reach of knowing the real effect produced by him upon either the drawing-room or the fireside. He may have done so with the deliberate intention of a theorist who does not desire to be answered; he may have done so with the clear conscience of a zealot who desires only to do what presents itself to him as his duty. He has undoubtedly done so, at least, with motives which it were indelicate to call indelicate, whatever else might be said of them ; but, all the same, he hasput himself beyond this reach. From the medical lecture-room alone can he be answered. Only a physician can reply to " Sex in Education." It is to be hoped that, among the physicians whose professional rank may entitle them to a hearing as broad as Dr. Clarke's, some one who joins issue with him upon his principal physiological theory, may find the leisure to remind us what a blessed fact it is that doctors always disagree. Without the least desire to undervalue either the culture or the skill of the man from whom we differ, a little inquiry into the effect produced upon brother and sister physicians by his essay will reveal the fact that its author is not without sufficiently important opponents. " Sejf in Education " having once been written, another essay, equally to the point, if a little more regard ful of the old-fashioned prejudices of non-medical society, should be written to mate it. Meanwhile it remains possible for any of u...« less