Men and Women - contd

"Love in woman" says Lombroso "is in its fundamental nature no more than a secondary character of motherhood, and all the feelings of affection that bind woman to man arise not from secual impulses, but from the instricts - acquired by adaptation - of subordination and self-surrender.

The woman doesnot grow so far from what she is at birth as the harassed and the experimental male; she clings to heredity as he ventures into variation; she is the organ and seat of racial stability, as he is teh agent and herald of change. The other side of stability is a certain conservation of feeling and an inadequacy of thougt. Woman's interests are familial, and normally her environment is the home; she is as deep as nature and as narrow as four walls. She is less experimental in mind and morals. Woman seems to be less at home with abstract thougts; she has a sharp eye for facts, and a good memory for them, but she is not adept at generalization or original interpretation and she may lose herslef and her purpose in details. In general woman seeks, in her mate, not beuty but ability and strength, as a promise of protection; it is the male who selects for beuty, less because it is a promise of pleasure, than because normally it is the flag of vigor and health.