 | Charles Darwin - 1871 - 470 pagina’s
...brightly-colored of the two, as may be seen when both sexes have been equally exposed to the weather. Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison... | |
 | George Harris - 1876 - 462 pagina’s
...Coleridge meant this, and by " sensibility " what I have here termed " emotion." According to Mr. Darwin, " Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genins. His brain is C the same men at different periods of life, vary far more than do men and women.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 890 pagina’s
...KugliiJi 'Aathropologhal ReTie-.v,' Oct. 1868, Transl. 187:1, vol. i |i. .r>44. pp. 4 19, 4'Jli", 427. Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether or not proportionately to his larger liody, has not, I... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - 1905 - 826 pagina’s
...perhaps the brighter colored of the two sexes, as may be seen when both have been equally exposed. Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether or not proportionately to his larger body has not, I believe,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1981 - 964 pagina’s
...brightly coloured of the two, as may be seen when both sexes have been equally exposed to the weather. Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His 1 Schiuiffhausen, translation in ' Anthropological Review,' Oct. 1868, p. 419, 420, 427. brain... | |
 | M. Ruse - 1985 - 284 pagina’s
...conclusions that Darwin drew harmonized nicely with some pretty conventional Victorian ideas about sex roles. "Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius." By way of compensation, woman has "greater tenderness and less selfishness". (Darwin, 1871 , 2, pp.316,... | |
 | David Paul Crook - 1984 - 488 pagina’s
...maternal instincts. But in general he held her faculties to represent an earlier stage of evolution: 'Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius.'55 The conventional Darwinist view still persisted in 1918, even though biologists were becoming... | |
 | Glenna Matthews - 1987 - 300 pagina’s
...men and women be drawn up and a comparison made in order to verify his and Gallon's contention. If "man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius," how did his superiority arise? The answer lies in the struggle among savages for women: "With social... | |
 | Gillian Beer - 1989 - 224 pagina’s
...mechanism in man's development. Darwin bases his argument on a fixed notion of sexual distinction. 'Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether or not proportionately to his larger body, has not, I believe,... | |
 | Richard Brown - 1985 - 228 pagina’s
...habit of thought which is utterly pervasive in writings on sexuality, from Darwin who averred that 'Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius'26 as far as Freud, whose habit of talking of women's 'genital deficiency' has been much attacked... | |
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Man is more courageous, pugnacious and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether or not proportionately to his larger body, has not, I believe, been fully ascertained. 
