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Endnotes for Griffin Readings

Griffin text p.14

God does not. . . He will not die : see Newton, Principles , as cited in MFM, p. 259, and Newton, Opticks , p. 379. (This is essentially my parody.)
God is a mathematician : see Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life,on Kepler and Galileo's notion of divine geometry and for his brilliant argument against this.
"these the Divine Wisdom ": see Galileo, Two Great Systems, as cited in Hugh Kearney, Science and Change, 1500-1700, p. 146.
God has allowed us : see Kepler, letter to Herwart von Hohenburg, 1599, as cited in MES, vol. 2, p. 188.
"not the woman ": see St. Augustine, On the Holy Trinity , in NGI, p. 130. See also Aquinas, Summa , in NGI, p. 131.
"the image of God": see Gratian, Decretum , in NGI, p. 130.
God is the principle : see Aquinas, Summa , in NGI, p. 131.
the minds of women : see Malebranche, in NGI, p. 246.
All abstract knowledge : see Immanuel Kant, as cited in H. J. Mozans, Woman in Science , p. 136.
controversy : see NGI, pp. 247-8.
to the woman who owns : see Moliere, Les Femmes Savantes , trans. Curtis Page.

(All endnotes above, Griffin p.233)

"but a brute thing": see The Works of Honorable Robert Boyle , as cited in MFM, p. 183.
no intellect : ibid.

(Above endnotes, Griffin p.234)

Griffin text p.26

her evolution resulted : see PSV, pp. 57-8.
that the later development of the : see Pfitzner, cited in a refutation by Havelock Ellis in Man and Woman , as cited in PA, p. 117.
woman's brain mass : see PSV, pp. 56-7, 66-7. See also Ellis, in PA, p.116, and James McGrigor Allan. "The Real Differences," as cited in TH, pp. 220-1 n .
lacking in reason , see Schopenhauer, "On Women," as cited in PA, p. 121.
in the womb : see Meckel, as cited in HS, p. 260.
mentally women : see Allan, op. cit ., in TH., p. 219.
thoughts of women : see Herbert Spencer, Principles of Psychology , as cited in PSV, p. 63. See also Hegel, Philosophy of Right , as cited in PA, pp. 120-1.
"Science offends the modesty ": see Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil , p. 87.
that abstract thought : see Sir Almroth E. Wright, The Unexpurgated Case Against Women Suffrage , as cited in TH, p. 221 n .
female organism transmits : see William K. Brooks, "The Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View," as cited in PSV, p. 69.
"the male": see Remy De Gourmont, The Natural Philosophy of Love , p. 52.
"Undergo ... a severe": see Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man in Relation to Sex , as cited in PA, p. 113.
without the male : see De Gourmont, op. cit ., p. 52.

(All endnotes above, Griffin p.237)

mankind has evolved : see DC, pp. 337-9, on Condorcet and others regarding the scale of being. See also Himmelfarb, op. cit ., p. 230, on Tennyson: "evolution . . . becomes . . . the promise of salvation."
arise and fly : see Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam. all animals are merely : see Oken, as cited by Alexander Gade von Aesch, Natural Science in German Romanticism , in DC, p. 95.
And striving : see Emerson, as cited in DC, p. 52.
Man is an animal, and he is the most : Eiseley puts the date of the recognition that man is an animal at 1859, the date of the publication of the Origin , as cited in DC, p. 255. See also DC, p. 97, citing Luis Agassiz, An Essay in Classification : "that man is the last of a term of a series, beyond which there is no material progress possible ..." and DC p. 287-324.
according to the laws of survival : see Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin, as discussed in DC, p. 51. (Note: Lamarck meant unconscious volition, but the popular nineteenth-century view was that the conscious will shaped evolution.)
"What was her": see Charles Kingsley, Yeast , as cited in TH, p. 192.
"stronger and . . . better equipped": see Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy , as cited in DC, p. 52.
women were not meant : see Marquis de Sade, La Nouvelle Justine , as cited in DS, p. 83.
That woman is as: ibid .

(All endnotes above, Griffin p.238)

Griffin text p.30

natural government : see John Hunter, Essays and Observations , as cited in DC, p. 329.
war serves: see Sir Arthur Keith, Darwin's official biographer, as cited in Himmelfarb, op. cit ., p. 417.
history of human society : see Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto . (When Marx read the Origin , he saw it as "a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history." See Himmelfarb, op. cit ., p. 421, citing Marx.)
development of large : see John D. Rockefeller, as cited in Himmelfarb, op. cit , p. 420.
each organism : see Thomas Huxley, as cited in DC, p. 335.
human body: ibid .
"milk-white": see John Keats, Poetical Works .
"every woman is always": see Allan, "The Real Differences," as cited in TH, p. 220.

(Above notes, Griffin p.239)

during menses: ibid .
pity is the offspring : see Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality," First and Second Dialogues , pp. 130-2.
poets . . . learned : see Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil , p. 219.
women appear : see Darwin, Descent , as cited in PA, p. 112.
pity . . . closer to the state : see Rousseau, "Discourse," pp. 130-3.
the sick are": see Nietzsche, A Genealogy of Morals , as cited in PA, p. 127.
a man whose house : see T. W. H. Crosland, Lovely Woman , as cited in TH, pp. 222-3.
men must work : see Reverend Charles Kingsley, "Three Fishers Went Sailing," song with accompaniment for pianoforte; music by J. Hullah.
who would sympathize : see Schopenhauer, "On Women," as cited in DS, p. 200.

(Above notes, Griffin p. 240)

Griffin text p.32

I am a woman": ibid . (These words and the words above are put into the mouth of a woman.)
both the emancipated : see PSV, pp. 57-8.
"the generous sentiments": see George Fitzhugh, Sociology for the South , as cited in TH, p. 190 n .
But as to women and men : see DC, chap. 8.
struggle for existence : see A. von Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels , as cited in DC, p. 183.

(Above notes, Griffin p. 240)

theory of mutation may make it possible : see Thomas Case, Science , 1905. as cited in DC, p. 250.
"animals our fellow": see Charles Darwin, Life and Letters , as cited in DC, p. 352. (These are the words of Darwin as a young man.)
The redder blood : see J. D. Bernal, Science and Industry in the Nineteenth Century , p. 59, referring to Julius Robert Mayer's observations relevant to the equivalence of heat and motion.
Heat and motion: ibid , pp. 63-4.
The engineer : see Freidrich Engels, Dialectics of Nature , as cited in Bernal, Science , p. 42: ". . . the practical mechanics of the engineer arrives at the concept of work and forces it on the theoretician." Heat, energy and work : see Bernal, Science , on the work of Joule, p. 43. See also EV, p. 49.

(Above notes, Griffin p. 241)

Griffin text pp.103-4

HIS POWER

The Hunt: This story of the deer and her fawn being shot was taken from an account published in the New York Times by Ruth C. Adams, November 1, 1975. For stories such as the breaking of the back of the hare (a practice of English schoolboys), see Maureen Duffy, "Beasts for Pleasure," in Animals, Men and Morals . For a description of methods of hunting elephants, see lain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton, Among the Elephants . For lists of extinct and vanishing species, see Ziswiler, Extinct and Vanishing Animals .

(Above note, Griffin p. 248)

Key of Short-Titles (see citations for other sources)

DC	Eisley, Loren. Darwin't Century
EV	Einstein, Albert, and Leopold Infeld. The Evolution of Physics
HS	Dampier, W. C. A History of Science
MES	Crombie, A.C. Medieval and Early Modern Science
MFM	Burtt, E.A. The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
NGI	O'Faolain, Julia, and Lauro Martines. Not in God's Image
PA	Figes, Eva. Patriarchal Attitudes
PSV	Haller, John S., and Robin M. Haller. The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America
TH	Rogers, Katherine M. The Troublesome Helpmate

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