life of the
sexes--The result on woman's mind--The revolt against
repression--Woman as she is represented in literature--The
woman of the future--Woman the cause of emotion in men--Part
played by women in early civilisations--What men learnt from
them--Woman's emotional endowment--Her affectability and
response to suggestion--These the qualities essential to
success in the arts--A comparison between the qualities of
genius and the qualities of woman--This opens up questions of
startling significance--What women may achieve in the
future--Some suggestions as to the effect of the entrance of
women into the arts.

III.--_The Affectability of Woman--Its Connection with the Religious
Impulse_

Woman's aptitude for religion--Her need for a
protection--Relation between the sexual and religious
emotions--Deprivation of love and satiety of love the sources
of religious needs--Religious prostitution--Religio-erotic
festivals--Sexual mysticism in Christianity--The lives of the
saints--Religious sexual perceptions--Their influence on the
emotional feminine character--A personal experience--The
association between love and salvation--The same sense of the
eternal in the religious and the sexual
impulse--Asceticism--Its origin in the sexual
emotions--Preoccupation of the ascetic with sex needs--The
transformation of the sex-impulse into spiritual
activities--Examples--The modern ascetic--The fear of
love--This the ultimate cause of the contempt of
woman--Example of Maupassant's priest--In love the way of
salvation.

CHAPTER IX

APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER WITH SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON SEX
DIFFERENCES

I.--_Women and Labour_

"The fullest ideal of the woman-worker is she who works not
merely or mainly for men as the help and instrument of their
purpose, but who works with men as the instrument yet material
of her purpose."--GEDDES AND THOMPSON.

When we come to consider the detailed differences between woman and
man, a sharp separation of them into female qualities and male
qualities no longer squares with the known facts. Any attempt to
lessen the natural differences, as also to weaken at all the
attractions arising from this divergence, must be regarded with
extreme distrust. There is a real and inherent prejudice against the
mascu