Crossword-Solution: AFFECTABILITY 13 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 26

Ellis considers the chief differences to be the less tendency to variability, the greater affectability, and the greater primitiveness of the female mind, and the less ability shown by women in dealing with the more remote and abstract interests in life.

The further we follow this the more striking the likeness between the qualities of genius and the high, nervous affectability of woman becomes.

How convincingly this speaks to women, "Be not ashamed of anything, but to be ashamed." III.--_The Affectability of Woman--Its Connection with the Religious Impulse_ "Religion shares with the sexual impulse the unceasing yearning, the sentiment of everlastingness, the mystic absorption into the depths of life, the longing for the coalescence of individualities in an eternally blessed union, free from earthly fetters."--IWAN BLOCH.

Now, this affectability, that we have found to be a characteristic feminine feature, leads us directly to an inquiry into the part religion has played in the lives of women, and to the wider consideration of the religious impulse in general, and its close connection with the sexual instinct.

INDEX A Adoption of children, 205, 358 Adultery, 279, 341 ---- among primitive peoples, 132, 136, 148, 149, 160, 165 ---- in Babylon, 206 ---- in Egypt, 189, 191 ---- in Greece, 218, 219-220 ---- in Rome, 230, 238 Æschines, his dialogue on Aspasia, 224-225 Affectability of women, 296, 308-309, 317 Africa, the maternal family in, 162-164 ---- power of Royal Princesses in, 161-162 Alladians of Ivory Coast, 164 Amazons, 228 _Ambel-anak_ marriage, 152 American Indians.