mbroso mentions the prevalence of sexual frigidity among
prostitutes (_La Donna Delinquente_, p. 401). See also Havelock Ellis,
_Psychology of Sex_, Vol. VI. pp. 268-272. This writer does not
support the view of the sexual frigidity of prostitutes, but in this,
I believe, he is influenced by statistics and outward facts, rather
than personal knowledge gained from the women themselves.

[328] Women in marriage have been for so long protected by men from
the necessity of doing work, that why should we expect the prostitute
to prefer uncongenial work?

CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XI

THE END OF THE INQUIRY

The future of Woman--Indications of progress--The re-birth of
woman--Woman learning to believe in herself--The sin of
sterility--The waste of womanhood--The change in woman's
outlook--The quickening of the social conscience--A criticism
of militancy--It does not correspond with the ideal for
women--The new free relationship of the sexes--The conditions
which make this possible--The recognition of love as the
spiritual force in life--The importance of woman's freedom to
the vital advance of humanity--The end brings us back to the
beginning--The supreme importance of Motherhood--Woman the
guardian of the Race-life and the Race-soul--This the ground
of her claim for freedom.

CHAPTER XI

THE END OF THE INQUIRY

"Among the higher activities and movements of our time, the
struggle of our sisters to attain an equality of position with
the strong, the dominant, the oppressive sex, appears to me,
from the purely human point of view, most beautiful and most
interesting: indeed, I regard it as possible that the coming
century will obtain its historical characterisations, not from
any of the social and economical controversies of the world of
men, but that this century will be known to subsequent history
distinctively as that in which the solution of the 'woman's
question' was obtained."--GEORGE HIRTH.

Looking back over the long inquiry which lies behind us, we have come
by many and various paths to seek that standpoint from which we
started--the Truth about Woman. We must now try to give a brief answer
to a difficult question. What is the future of woman? Are we able to
recognise in the present upward development of the sex signs of real
progress towards better conditions? Is it within the capacity of th