be faced--The organic differences between the sexes--Resume
of the facts already established--The error in the common
opinion of the true relationship of the sexes--The male
active and seeking--The female passive and receiving--Is this
true?--An examination of the passivity of the female--The
delusion that man is the active partner in the sexual
relationship--The economic factor in marriage--The
conventional modesty of woman--Concealments and evasions--The
feeling of shame in love--Woman's right of selection--How
this must be regained by women--The new Ethic--The pre-natal
claims of the child--The question of parenthood as a
religious question--The responsibility of the mother as the
child's supreme parent--The mating of the future--Another
question--Woman's superior moral virtue--Its fundamental
error--Woman's imperative need of love--The maternal
instinct--Nature's experiments--The establishment of two
sexes--The feminine and masculine characters are an inherent
part of the normal man and woman--The female as the giver of
life--The deep significance of this--The atrophy of the
maternal instinct--Modern woman preoccupied with herself--The
right position of the mother--Sex attraction and sex
antagonism--Woman's relation to sexuality--The duel of the
sexes--The prostitution of love--Man's fear of
woman--Misogyny--The rebellion of woman against man--Coercive
differentiation of the sexes in consequence of
civilisation--The ideal of a one-sexed world--Woman as the
enemy of her own emancipation--The attempt to establish a
third sex--The danger of ignoring sex--The future progress of
love.

CHAPTER VIII

SEX DIFFERENCES

"Woman is an integral constituent of the processes of
civilisation, which, without her, becomes unthinkable. The
present moment is a turning point in the history of the feminine
world. The woman of the past is disappearing, to give place to
the woman of the future, instead of the bound, there appears the
free personality."--IWAN BLOCH.

At length we are ready, clear-minded and well-prepared, to deal with
the question of woman's present position in society. Our minds are
clear, for we have freed them from the age-long error that the
subjection of the female to the male is a universal and necessary part