The present point of view of scientists
seems well expressed by Ellis when he says, 'We may regard all such
discussions as absolutely futile and foolish. If it is a question of
determining the existence and significance of some particular
physical sexual difference, a conclusion may not be impossible. To
make any broad statement of the phenomena is to recognize that no
general conclusion is possible. Now and again we come across facts
which group themselves with a certain uniformity, but as we continue,
we find other equally important facts which group themselves with
equal uniformity in another sense. The result produces compensation.'
The question of interest then is, what in nature is peculiar to the
male sex and what to the female? What traits will be true of a boy,
merely because he is a boy, and vice versa? This has been an
extremely difficult question to answer, because of the difficulty
encountered in trying to eliminate the influence of environment and
training. Boys are what they are because of their original nature
plus their surroundings. Some would claim that if we could give boys
and girls the same surroundings, the same social requirements, the
same treatment from babyhood, there would be no difference in the
resulting natures.
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