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The Differences Between Woman and Man 3 - Al-Shia The Scientific and Cultural Website of Shia belief The Differences Between Woman and Man 3 2023-01-29 370 Views Man , Man Vs Woman , Woman The view of Will Durant In part four of his book “ The Pleasures of Philosophy” , Will Durant has made a very detailed and comprehensive analysis of the problem of sex and the family.

We shall make a short selection of certain parts of that book for our readers so that they may have an idea of the way of thinking of western scholars and abstain from passing hasty judgments. Under the heading of “Love” Will Durant writes: “It is at puberty that love sings its first clear song.

Literally puberty means the age of hair — the sprouting of vegetation on the male, particularly hair on the chest, of which he is barbarically proud, and hair on the face and chin, which he removes with the patience of Sisyphus. The quality and abundance of the hair seem to rise and fall (other things equal) with the cycle of reproductive power, and are at their best at the acme of vitality.

This sudden foliage along with the deepening of the voice, is among the “secondary sexual characters” that come to the male at puberty; while to the blossoming girl nature brings the softened contours that will lure the eye, the widened pelvis that will facilitate maternity, and the filled out breast that is used to nurse the child. ‘What causes these secondary characteristics ?

No one knows, but professor Starling has found favor for his theory that when puberty comes, the reproductive cells begin to produce not merely ova and sperms, but certain “hormones” which pass into the blood and cause a physical and psychical transformation. It is not only the body that is now endowed with new powers; the mind and character are affected in a thousand ways.

‘There are in life,’ said Romaine Rolland, ‘certain ages during which there takes place a silently working change in a man’ – or in a woman. This is the most important of them all.

New feelings flood the body and the soul; curiosity drives the mind forward, and modesty holds it back.’ (1) “‘All men,’ says de Muset ‘are liars, traitors, babblers, hypocrites, strutters; all women are vain, artificial, and perfidious; …but there is in the world one thing holy and sublime and that is the union of these two imperfect beings.’” (2) “In, adults the ritual of courtship is acquisitive advance by the male and seductive retreat by the female.