"The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of……" — Charles Darwin
"The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is shown by mans attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes up, than the woman. Whether deep thought, reason, or imagination or merely the use of the senses and hands.....We may also infer.....The average mental power in man must be above that of woman."
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Charles Darwin
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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