The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more
or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where
character is the more developed, and most of all in man.
The fact is, the nature of man is the most rounded off and
complete, and consequently in man the qualities or capacities above
referred to are found in their perfection. Hence woman is more
compassionate than man, more easily moved to tears, at the same time
is more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike.
She is, furthermore, more prone to despondency and less hopeful than
the man, more void of shame or self-respect, more false of speech,
more deceptive, and of more retentive memory. She is also more
wakeful, more shrinking, more difficult to rouse to action, and
requires a smaller quantity of nutriment.
As was previously stated, the male is more courageous than the
female, and more sympathetic in the way of standing by to help. Even
in the case of molluscs, when the cuttle-fish is struck with the
trident the male stands by to help the female; but when the male is
struck the female runs away.
There is enmity between such animals as dwell in the same
localities or subsist on the food.
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