It  is  not  simply  that  women  are  more  ready  than
men  to  accept  what  is  already  accepted  and  what  is

'  "Children's  Lies,"  Am.  Journal  of  Psychology,  January  1890.
^  There  are  far  more  women  than  men  who  can  say  with  Mrs.
Besant :  "Looking  back  to-day  over  my  life  I  see  that  its  key-note —
through  all  the  blunders  and  the  blind  mistakes  and  clumsy  follies —
has  been  this  longing  for  sacrifice  to  something  felt  as  greater  than  the
self." — Autobiography,  xiv.  While  the  instinct  of  self-sacrifice  is
common  among  women  it  cannot  be  said  that  the  appreciation  of  "  the
sublimity  of  truth  "  is  a  masculine  characteristic  in  anything  like  a
corresponding  degree.
