g the
suggestiveness and value of this theory, and also acknowledging very
gratefully the help I have derived from it, it must be stated that
some of the facts brought forward in its support by the distinguished
American cannot be accepted. Nor am I able, as will appear later, to
accept the conclusion he arrives at of the passive character of the
female. See also a popular article by Prof. Ward, "Our Better Halves",
_The Forum_, Vol. VI., Nov. 1888, pp. 266-275.

[20] Van Beneden, _Animal Parasites and Messmates_, p. 55.

[21] Milne Edwards, _Lecons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparee
de l'homme et des animaux_, Vol. IX. p. 267.

[22] In addition to the works already mentioned, see Darwin, _Descent
of Man_, Vol. I. p. 329; Haeckel, _Evolution of Man_, and _A Manual of
the Anatomy of the Invertebrated Animals_, by T. Huxley, pp. 261-262.

[23] _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_, Vol. I. p. 345.

[24] Thomson, J.A., _Heredity_, p. 39.

[25] Article by Ryder, _Science_, Vol. I., May 31, 1895, p. 603.

[26] Schreiner, Olive, _Woman and Labour_, pp. 77-78.

[27] These examples of female parasitism have been taken from
_Evolution of Sex_, p. 17; see also pp. 19-22. The authors bring them
forward with many other examples to prove the main thesis of their
book--that the character of the female is anabolic, that of the male
katabolic. In establishing this theory they do not appear to give
sufficient importance to the fact that this degeneration of the female
is only found where the conditions of life are parasitic.

[28] _Evolution of Sex_, p. 21; _Pure Sociology_, pp. 316-317.

[29] "Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States," by L.O. Howard,
_Bulletin_ No. 25, New Series, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Division of Entomology, 1900, p. 12. Quoted by Lester Ward, _Pure
Sociology_, p. 317.

[30] _Descent of Man_, p. 208.

[31] _Science_, Vol. XV., Jan. 1902, p. 30.

[32] Fulton, Naturalist to the Scottish Fishery Board. Cited in
_Evolution of Sex_, p. 22; see also pp. 25, 272, 295.

[33] _Pure Sociology_, pp. 317, 318.

[34] _Birds of Britain_, by J. Lewis Bonhote, p. 208; also pp.
190-221.

[35] A similar condition will be found in the even more complex
societary forms of ant-hills. Among the vast population of the ants
all the workers and soldiers are arrested in their sexual development,
remaining, as it were, permanent children of both sexes. It seems
probable that this explains the limit that