[304] Hobhouse, _op. cit._, Vol. I. p. 213. [305] Maine, _Ancient Law_, Ch. V. [306] McCabe, _The Religion of Women_, p. 26 _et seq._ [307] _Santiago_ (Mediaeval Towns Series), p. 21. [308] Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 124-125. [309] _Roman Society_, p. 163. [310] _Morals in Evolution_, Vol. I. p. 216. [311] _Woman_, p. 113. [312] _Digest_, XLVIII. 13, 5. PART III MODERN SECTION PRESENT-DAY ASPECTS OF THE WOMAN PROBLEM CONTENTS OF CHAPTER VIII SEX DIFFERENCES The practical application of the truths arrived at--A question to be faced--The organic differences between the sexes--Resume of the facts already established--The error in the common opinion of the true relationship of the sexes--The male active and seeking--The female passive and receiving--Is this true?--An examination of the passivity of the female--The delusion that man is the active partner in the sexual relationship--The economic factor in marriage--The conventional modesty of woman--Concealments and evasions--The feeling of shame in love--Woman's right of selection--How this must be regained by women--The new Ethic--The pre-natal claims of the child--The question of parenthood as a religious question--The responsibility of the mother as the child's supreme parent--The mating of the future--Another question--Woman's superior moral virtue--Its fundamental error--Woman's imperative need of love--The maternal instinct--Nature's experiments--The establishment of two sexes--The feminine and masculine characters are an inherent part of the normal man and woman--The female as the giver of life--The deep significance of this--The atrophy of the maternal instinct--Modern woman preoccupied with herself--The right position of the mother--Sex attraction and sex antagonism--Woman's relation to sexuality--The duel of the sexes--The prostitution of love--Man's fear of woman--Misogyny--The rebellion of woman against man--Coercive differentiation of the sexes in consequence of civilisation--The ideal of a one-sexed world--Woman as the enemy of her own emancipation--The attempt to establish a third sex--The danger of ignoring sex--The future progress of love. CHAPTER VIII SEX DIFFERENCES "Woman is an integral constituent of the processes of civilisation, which, without her, becomes unthinkable. The present moment is a turning point in the history of the feminine world. The woman of the past is disappearing, to give place to the woman of the future, instead of the bound, there appears the free personality."--IWAN BLOCH.