table the tissues of the male and female are often wholly
indistinguishable.

It is when we consider the reproductive organs themselves and their forms
of activity, and such parts of the organism modified directly in relation
to them, that a real and important difference is found to exist, radical
though absolutely complemental. It is exactly as we approach the
reproductive functions that the male and female bodies differ; exactly as
we recede from them that they become more and more similar, and even
absolutely identical. Taking the eye, perhaps the most highly developed,
complex organ in the body, and, if of an organ the term may be allowed, the
most intellectual organ of sense, we find it remains the same in male and
female in structure, in appearance, and in function throughout life; while
the breast, closely connected with reproduction, though absolutely
identical in both forms in infancy, assumes a widely different organisation
when reproductive activity is actually concerned.

When we turn to the psychic phase of human life an exactly analogous
phenomenon presents itself. The intelligence, emotions, and desires of the
human infant at birth differ not at all perceptibly, as its sex may be male
or female; and such psychic differences as appear to exist in later
childhood are undoubtedly very largely the result of artificial training,
forcing on the appearance of psychic sexual divergencies long before they
would tend spontaneously to appear; as where sports and occupations are
interdicted to young children on the ground of their supposed sexual
unfitness; as when an infant female is forcibly prevented from climbing or
shouting, and the infant male from amusing himself with needle and thread
or dolls. Even in the fully adult human, and in spite of differences of
training, the psychic activities over a large extent of life appear to be
absolutely identical. The male and female brains acquire languages, solve