as we now exhibit hermaphrodites. The feminist ideal leads us to these pipe-dreams. But if it comes to destroying the couple and not to re-forming it, if it comes to establishing a vast social promiscuity, if feminism resolves itself into the formula: free-woman in free-love, it is even more chimerical than all the chimzera which have at least their analogy in the diversity of animal habits. Human parthenogenesis is less absurd: it offers an order, and promiscuity is a disorder. But social promiscuity is impossible by the further reason that woman, the more feeble, would be crushed by it. She struggles against man only, thanks to the privileges which man concedes her, when troubled by sexual inebriety, intoxicated and drowsy with the fumes of desire. The factitious equality which she claims would re-establish her ancient slavery, on the day when most or all women wish to enjoy it: that is still another possible solution of the feminist crisis. However one looks at it, one sees the human couple re-establish itself ineluctably. It is very difficult, from the standpoint of natural logic, to sympathize with moderate feminism, one could more easily accept feminism in excess. For if there are in nature numerous examples of feminism, there are very few of an equality of the sexes. CHAPTER VIII LOVE-ORGANS _Sexual dimorphism and parallelism.--Sexual organs of man and of woman.--Constancy of sexual parallelism in the animal series.--External sexual organs of placentary mammifera.--Form and position of the penis.--The penial bone.--The clitoris.--The vagina.--The teats.--Forked prong of marsupials.--Sexual organs of reptiles.--Fish and birds with a penial organ--Genital organs of arthropodes.--Attempt to classify animals according to the disposition, presence, absence of exterior organs for reproduction._