1. What is sex? 2. To what beings only does sex apply? 3. What is gender? To what does it apply? Do the distinctions of gender correspond to the distinctions of sex? Give examples of languages containing three genders, and of the classification in languages containing but two.
EXAMPLES.
The maternal relation naturally and necessarily divides the work of the ——s giving to woman the indoor life, and to man, the work of the outer world.
While in French every word is either of the masculine or feminine ——, the language sometimes fails for that very reason to indicate the —— of some person referred to.
GENERAL ([page 181]).
QUESTIONS.
1. What does general signify? 2. How does general compare with universal? with common? 3. What illustrations of the differences are given in the text?
EXAMPLES.
—— friendships will admit of division, one may love the beauty of this, the good humor of that person, ... and so on.