Excerpt from Men and Women In trying to find out, then, what men are and What women are, I shall not consider at present the ideal, what they ought to be. This I shall refer to only incidentally. It is what they have been and what they are that we need to understand; and we must, in order to get at the central truths, leave one side the wide range of variations. Of course there are a great many men who possess womanly qualities, and are the finer and the better for it. There are many women who possess manly qualities, and a similar thing is true of them. But it is not these variations that we need at present to fix our attention upon. It is rather the central, essential characteristics that have been pe culiar in the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.