CHAPTER IX

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

I.--_Women and Labour_

A further examination of the sexual differences--The knowledge we have gained does not enable us definitely to settle the problem--The necessity of considering Nurture--Woman's character to some extent the result of circumstance, to some extent organic--The difficulties of the problem--Standards of comparison--Incompleteness of our knowledge--New researches on sex-differences--The confusion of opinions--Women and men different, but neither superior to the other--The position of women in society to-day--The increasing surplus of women--How can a remedy be found?--Woman's place in the home--The changes in modern conditions--Women and labour--The damning struggle for life--Sweated work--Women's wages--The marketable value of woman's sex--This the explanation of the smallness of women's wages--The prostitute better paid than the worker--Woman's strength as compared with man's--Are women really the weaker sex?--Woman's work capacity equal to man's, but different--The Spanish women--The intolerable conditions of labour in commercial countries--Women more deeply concerned than men--The real value of women's work--This must be recognised by the State--The social service of child-bearing--The primary and most important work of women--The present revolt of women--How far is this justifiable--A caution and some reflections.

II.--_Sexual Differences of the Mind and the Artistic Impulse in Women_

The mental and psychical sexual differences--Ineradicability of these--Can they be modified or disregarded?--The masculine and feminine intellectual qualities--Caution necessary in making any comparison--Example, a tenacious memory--Is this a feminine characteristic?--Woman's intuition--Its value--Each sex contributes to the thought power of the other--The artistic impulse--Is genius to be regarded as an endowment of the male?--An examination of the grounds for this view--Untenability of the opinion of the greater variational tendency of men--The question needs reopening--The influence of environment and training on woman's mind--What woman can, or can not, do as yet unproved--Woman's talent for diplomacy--The separation between the mental 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

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love--This the ultimate cause of the contempt of woman--Example of Maupassant's priest--In love the way of salvation.

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