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One of the sharpest distinctions both between the essential characters / and the artificial positions of men and women, is in the matter of / games and sports. By far the greater proportion of them are essentially / masculine, and as such alien to women; while from those which are / humanly interesting, women have been largely debarred by their arbitrary / restrictions.
The play instinct is common to girls and boys alike; and endures in some / measure throughout life. As other young animals express their abounding / energies in capricious activities similar to those followed in the / business of living, so small children gambol, physically, like lambs and / kids; and as the young of higher kinds of animals imitate in their play / the more complex activities of their elders, so do children imitate / whatever activities they see about them. In this field of playing there / is no sex.