Sections 1 Is it to be, that, in the future, machinery and the captive motor-forces of nature are… 2 In the confusion and darkness of the present, it may well seem to some, that woman, in her… 3 This statement, with a certain specious semblance of truth, is yet, we believe, radically… 4 The position of the unemployed modern female is one wholly different. 5 Nevertheless, in the history of the past the dangers of the sex-parasitism have never… 6 The parasitism of the human female becomes a possibility only when a point in civilisation… 7 In many cases so complete was her enervation, that at last the very joy of giving life, the… 8 In ancient Greece, in its superb and virile youth, its womanhood was richly and even heavily… 9 Man turned towards man; and parenthood, the divine gift of imparting human life, was severed… 10 In Rome, in the days of her virtue and vigour, the Roman matron laboured mightily, and bore… 11 Thoughtful men sighed over the present and yearned for the past, nor seem to have perceived… 12 We recognise that it was inevitable that this womanhood—born it would seem from its… 13 It was inevitable that before the sons of women such as these, the sons of the parasitic… 14 “Her price is far above rubies, The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have… 15 We are, indeed, far from asserting that the civilisations of the past which have decayed,… 16 The exact material condition at which this point will be reached will vary, not only with… 17 Secondly, the female having one all-important though passive function which cannot be taken… 18 And it is down this inclined plane that the women of civilised races are peculiarly tempted,… 19 These peculiarities in her condition have in all civilised societies laid the female more… 20 As we have said it is the power of the human female to impress herself on her descendants,…
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