II. INCREASING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE SEX-CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS ARE THE MAIN FEATURE OF HUMAN ADVANCE 21 III. THE MYSTERY OF SEX AND SEX-TRANSMISSION 35 IV. ONE SIDE OF BODY IS MALE, THE OTHER SIDE IS FEMALE 51 V. MASCULINE MOTHERS PRODUCE EMASCULATE SONS BY MISAPPROPRIATING THE LIFE-POTENTIAL OF MALE OFFSPRING 73 BOOK II WOMAN'S PART IN HUMAN DECADENCE I. DECLINE AND FALL OF ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS DUE TO FEMINISM 95 II. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX IN ADOLESCENCE 109 III. THE EXTINCTION OF SEX IN ADOLESCENCE 126 IV. THE WOMAN BRAIN: ITS POWERS AND DISABILITIES 146 V. MALE AND FEMALE SEX-INSTINCTS AND MORALE DIAMETRICALLY DIFFERENT 166 VI. FEMINIST DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE DISASTROUS TO INFANT-LIFE AND HUMAN FACULTY 190 VII. FEMINIST DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE DESTRUCTIVE OF WOMANLY ATTRIBUTES, MORALE AND PROGRESS 219 VIII. DANGEROUS SEPARATION OF WOMEN INTO TWO ORDERS: FEMINISTS AND FEMININISTS 242 IX. THE IMPENDING SUBJECTION OF MAN 264 APPENDIX FURTHER EVIDENCES IN SUPPORT OF BIOLOGICAL AND MENDELIAN PROPOSITIONS ADVANCED IN BOOK I 292 BOOK I WOMAN'S PART IN HUMAN EVOLUTION CHAPTER I IMPASSIONED FALLACIES OF FEMINISM "The sexual love which has its origin in what is external and accidental may easily be turned to hate, a kind of madness that is nourished on discord; but that love, on the other hand, is lasting which has its source in freedom of soul and in the will to bear and bring up children."--_Spinoza._ I There is no subject save that of Religion about which so much impassioned fallacy has been spoken and written as has been spoken and written round the Woman Question. For more than half a century--since Mill wrote his famous _Subjection_, indeed--it has become an increasing vogue to regard Woman as a martyr; more or less sainted, more or less crushed and effaced beneath the iron-heeled tyrannies, personal, economic, and political, of the oppressor, Man. And it has been in the spirit of this conviction and in fervid endeavours--indignant and chivalrous on the part of the one sex, and still more indignant and but little less chivalrous on the part of the other--to liberate unhappy victims from a barbarous oppression, that most of the impassioned fallacy has been spoken and written, and doughty deeds done. At the certain cost, therefore, of being stigmatised as a reactionary (severely qualified), I propose to unmask some of these which I believe to be baseless obsessions, and to present a wholly new--and, I hope, a more veracious and inspiring version of the case between the sexes.