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WOMAN IN SCIENCE

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
ON WOMAN'S LONG STRUGGLE
FOR THINGS OF THE MIND

BY

H. J. MOZANS, A.M., Ph.D.

AUTHOR OF "UP THE ORINOCO AND DOWN THE MAGDALENA,"
"ALONG THE ANDES AND DOWN THE AMAZON," ETC.



Que e piu bella in donna que savere?

Dante, Convito.





NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1913

Copyright, 1913, by
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America




TO
MRS. CHARLES M. SCHWAB
AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE
TO HER CHARMING PERSONALITY
GOODNESS OF HEART AND NOBILITY OF SOUL
THIS VOLUME
IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
WITH THE BEST WISHES OF
THE AUTHOR.

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PREFACE

The following pages are the outcome of studies begun many years ago inGreece and Italy. While wandering through the famed and picturesque landof the Hellenes, rejoicing in the countless beauties of the islands ofthe Ionian and Ægean seas or scaling the heights of Helicon andParnassus, all so redolent of the storied past, I saw on every sidetangible evidence of that marvelous race of men and women whosematchless achievements have been the delight and inspiration of theworld for nearly three thousand years. But it was especially whilecontemplating, from the portico of the Parthenon, the magnificent vistawhich there meets the charmed vision, that I first fully experienced thespell of the favored land of Hellas, so long the home of beauty and ofintellect. The scene before me was indeed enchanting beyond expression;for, every ruin, every marble column, every rock had its history, andevoked the most precious memories of men of godlike thoughts and of

It was a tranquil and balmy night in midsummer. The sun, leaving agorgeous afterglow, had about an hour before disappeared behind theazure-veiled mountains of Ithaca, where, in the long ago, lived andloved the hero and the heroine of the incomparable Odyssey. The fullmoon, just rising above the plain of Marathon, intensified the witcheryof that memorable spot consecrated by the valor of patriots battlingvictoriously against the invading hordes of Asia. Hard by was theAreopagus, where St. Paul preached to the "superstitious" Athenians on"The Unknown God." Almost adjoining it was the Agora, where Socrates waswont to hold converse with noble and simple on the sublimest questionswhich can engage the human mind. Not distant was the site of thecelebrated "Painted Porch,"...