The second example she cites in warning, the common spider, whose courtship customs Darwin described in _The Descent of Man_, is "a case of female superiority carried to a savage conclusion." And from this female who ruthlessly devours her lover, Mrs. Gallichan deduces a theory for "many of those wrongs which women have suffered at the hands of men. Man, acting instinctively, has rebelled, not so much, I think, against woman as against this driving hunger within himself, which forces him helpless into her power." The stages by which parasitism was transferred from the male to the female still need some elucidation--like the stages by which marriage passed from endogamy to exogamy. But Mrs. Gallichan's suggestion about the male preserving himself by appearing as self-sufficient and as dominant as he can, is highly interesting. It will probably not be long before we know a great deal more of this. In the historical section of her book, Mrs. Gallichan devotes four admirable chapters to the mother-age civilization, and four others to the position of women in Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. Of immense significance is the relation between the enviable status of women in Egypt and that love of peace and of peaceful pursuits which characterized the Egyptian people. War, patriarchy, and the subjection of women, have gone hand in hand. Social organizations in which might was right have minimized the worth of women; those in which ingenuity, resourcefulness, and ideality were set above brute force have given women most justice. Mrs. Gallichan's chapter on the women of Athens and of Sparta is most suggestive. So is that on the women of Rome. In her modern section she discusses women and labor: