The male becomes emasculate when women invade his domain. And with the increasing Hugger-mugger of the sexes, it grows, every day, more and more difficult for men to escape into the bracing, invigorating environment and moral of their own sex--a moral untempered by amenities due to the other, and one indispensable to string them to the pitch of virile thought and action. Our sailors and soldiers and aviators are still _men_, because woman has not so far invaded the Navy, the Army, or the Air. Feminine invasion everywhere else--in schools and colleges, in the arts, in politics, in commerce and in sports--is undoubtedly enfeebling the fibre of our manhood and the quality of masculine achievements. Man is a pioneer; aggressive, progressive, ever breaking new ground; conquering new territory and new forces of Nature. And this alike in politics, in commerce, and in other material affairs. When he fails to pioneer, reaching out to new horizons of thought and activity, engineering new enterprises, while at the same time strengthening and consolidating all he had already acquired--then the world, in place of progressing, regresses. And for pioneering, whether in political or in geographical regions, woman's presence hampers him. The less men are in a position to escape from the other sex, the more they lose the impetus and characteristics of their own. The like applies to women. Women who mix too much and too freely with men deteriorate signally in womanly values and quality. Both sexes benefit by segregation from the other, in order to adapt--each to its own characteristic morale and moral. Neither sex is wholly unconstrained and candid when in company of the other--unless both are demoralised. Sex operates as a stimulant. And to be always under influence of a stimulant is enervating. On the other hand, when, from over-indulgence, Sex or any other stimulant ceases to release new inspiration and forces, it is sign of a permanently enervated state. Or sex operates as a hypnotic. And to be always under hypnotic influence is as destructive of individuality as it is fatal to achievement. The sexes require to separate, accordingly, in order to derive fresh impulse on coming together again. Both work more seriously and sincerely, more efficiently and more effectively, apart; taking counsel, when need be, one of the other. The dilettante spirit and amenities of mixed companies, destructive of "thoroughness," are greatly to blame for that decline of British commerce which has followed on the Feminist invasion of business-houses. Significant of the trend is the fact that young and pretty and inefficient girls are selected for business positions, as clerks and so forth, while older women of experience and accredited ability are rejected summarily. It is, doubtless, amusing and flattering to masculine employers to be surrounded by attractive youth of the opposite sex. But it is conducive neither to commercial enterprise nor to achievement. IV