Sections 1 It has been stated sometimes, though more often implicitly than in any direct or logical… 2 And today, when the lofty theorist, who tonight stands before the drawing-room fire in… 3 “Man’s work is from sun to sun, But the woman’s work is never done”— it is not the haggard,… 4 When master and ass, drawing a heavy burden between them, have climbed a steep mountain… 5 As the women of old planted and reaped and ground the grain that the children they bore… 6 Yet it may be, that, with the smaller general bulk and the muscular fineness, and the… 7 The skilled diplomatist or politician, so powerful in his own element, on board ship during… 8 The Jews, whose history has been one long story of oppression at the hands of more muscular,… 9 It is possible, that the human female, like the Jew, the male of that type farthest removed… 10 It matters nothing, and less than nothing, to us as women, whether, of those children we… 11 In Swiss valleys today the traveller comes sometimes on the figure of a solitary woman… 12 There are many replies which may be made to such a suggestion. 13 All these statements are certainly interesting, and may be unanswerable. 14 For those who do not know her, and have not this ground, it is probably profitable and… 15 Finally, it may be objected to the entrance of woman to the new fields of labour, and in… 16 It is not easy to reply with rationality, or even gravity, to a supposition, which appears… 17 That the female who drives steam-driven looms, producing scores of yards of linen in a day,… 18 So axiomatic is the statement that the value of the female to the male varies as her… 19 And if, further, we turn to those secondary manifestations of sexual emotion, which express… 20 But, it may be objected, “If there be absolutely no ground for the formation of such an… 21 In our more civilised societies, as they exist today, woman possesses (more often perhaps in… 22 To the male, whenever and wherever he exists in our societies, who depends mainly for his… 23 In the male voluptuary of feeble intellect and unattractive individuality, who depends for… 24 But, apart from the two classes of persons whose objection to the entrance of woman to new… 25 Were it possible to place a company of the most highly evolved human females—George Sands,… 26 The two sexes are not distinct species but the two halves of one whole, always acting and… 27 But there exists at the present day another body of social phenomena, quite as important, as… 28 The sexual and social ideals which dominated the fox-hunting, hard-drinking, high-playing,… 29 If anywhere on earth exists the perfect ideal of that which the modern woman desires to… 30 In a stationary society where generation has succeeded generation for hundreds, or it may be… 31 But, supposing the sudden arrival of strangers armed with superior weapons and knowledge,… 32 Were the strangers to bring with them telescopes, looking through which it might at once… 33 Firstly, it is caused by the fact that mere excessive rapidity of change tends always easily… 34 Thirdly, the unrest and suffering peculiar to our age is caused by conflict going on within… 35 Thus, social disco-ordination, and subjective conflict and suffering, pervade the life of… 36 The New Man and Woman do not resemble two people, who, standing on a level plain, set out on… 37 This opposition of the smaller type of male, to the entrance of woman into the callings… 38 The sharing by men and women of the same labours, necessitating a common culture and… 39 In modern civilised life, in many sections, the lack of any common labour and interests and… 40 It is a gracious fact, to which every woman who has achieved success or accomplished good…
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