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Of course, Darwin had no scientific basis for proposing this,

but his biased and prejudiced claims about women spread rapidly
among his scientific contemporaries.
The materialist Carl Vogt, a professor of natural history at the
University of Geneva, accepted all the conclusions drawn by
Darwin, without subjecting them to any scientific analysis, and
claimed that "the child, the female, and the senile white" all had
the intellectual features and personality of the "grown up

Negro." 145 Vogt went even further, proposing that they were actu-
ally closer to animals than men. According to Vogt, a woman was
"a stunted man" whose development had been obstructed because
her evolution had come to a premature halt. 146 Vogt even con-
cluded that the gap between males and females increases with civ-
ilization's progress and is greatest in the advanced societies of