's emancipation that surely is to
be, but "Free _with_ man."

Let us pass to a somewhat different instance--the perversion of the
natural instincts of woman which has led to the attempt to establish
what has been called a "third sex,"[317] a type of woman in whom the
sexual differences are obscured or even obliterated--a woman who is,
in fact, a temperamental neuter. Economic conditions are compelling
women to enter with men into the fierce competition of our disordered
social State. Partly due to this reason, though much more, as I think,
to the strong stirring in woman of her newly-discovered self, there
has arisen what I should like to call an over-emphasised
Intellectualism. Where sex is ignored there is bound to lurk danger.
Every one recognises the significance of the advance in particular
cases of women towards a higher intellectual individuation, and the
social utility of those women who have been truly the pioneers of the
new freedom; but this does not lessen at all the disastrous influence
of an ideal which holds up the renunciation of the natural rights of
love and activities of women, and thus involves an irreparable loss to
the race by the barrenness of many of its finest types. The
significance of such Intellectuals must be limited, because for them
the possibility of transmission by inheritance of their valuable
qualities is cut off, and hence the way is closed to a further
progress. And, thus, we are brought back to that simple truth from
which we started; there are two sexes, the female and the male, on
their specific differences and resemblances blended together in union
every true advance in progress depends--on the perfected woman and the
perfected man.

FOOTNOTES:

[313] See Havelock Ellis, "The Sexual Impulse in Woman," _Psychology
of Sex_, Vol. III. p. 181, who gives this quotation from Marro.

[314] See page 111.

[315] Haddon, "Western Tribes of Torres Straits," _Journal of the
Anthropological Society_, Vol. XIX., Feb. 1890; cited by Ellis, _op.
cit._, p. 185.

[316] See page 66.

[317] E. von Wolzogen gives this name, _The Third Sex_, to a romance
in which he describes a kind of barren, stunted woman, capable,
however, of holding her place in all work in competition with men. The
writer compares these types of women to the workers among ants and
bees. _See_ p. 62. I have quoted from Iwan Bloch, _The Sexual Life of
Our Times_, p. 13.

CONTENTS OF CHAPTER IX

APPLICATION OF TH