The scientist "antis" validated the anti-suffragist movement and the "laws" of the ideology of the separate sphere in a way that awakened the support and confidence of the public opinion of mass. While Albert Einstein published the Theory of Relativity, the influential British bacteriologist and immunologist Sir Almroth E. Wright focused his energies on providing new scientific “information” about the capabilities of a woman's mind. In her letter to the London Times “The Unexpurgation Case Against Woman Suffrage”, 28 March 1912, she speaks of the “emotional reflex” and other disabilities of female intellect. He discusses the thought process of a female brain, arguing that it has an “imperfect sense of proportion” and “overly influenced by individual instances; reaches conclusions on incomplete evidence” and focuses on “mental images” and not on statements of reason. She goes on to explain that women “regard their minds not as an instrument for the pursuit of truth, but as an instrument for providing comfort in the form of pleasant mental images.” Sir Almroth E. Wright believed that women could never be equal to men, as a woman's mind was inferior and used for frivolous things. His scientific opinion was coal on the burning fire of the ideology of the separate sphere and a scientific defense of the "antis" movements in
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