The mental and psychical sexual differences--Ineradicability of these--Can they be modified or disregarded?--The masculine and feminine intellectual qualities--Caution necessary in making any comparison--Example, a tenacious memory--Is this a feminine characteristic?--Woman's intuition--Its value--Each sex contributes to the thought power of the other--The artistic impulse--Is genius to be regarded as an endowment of the male?--An examination of the grounds for this view--Untenability of the opinion of the greater variational tendency of men--The question needs reopening--The influence of environment and training on woman's mind--What woman can, or can not, do as yet unproved--Woman's talent for diplomacy--The separation between the mental life of the sexes--The result on woman's mind--The revolt against repression--Woman as she is represented in literature--The woman of the future--Woman the cause of emotion in men--Part played by women in early civilisations--What men learnt from them--Woman's emotional endowment--Her affectability and response to suggestion--These the qualities essential to success in the arts--A comparison between the qualities of genius and the qualities of woman--This opens up questions of startling significance--What women may achieve in the future--Some suggestions as to the effect of the entrance of women into the arts. III.--_The Affectability of Woman--Its Connection with the Religious Impulse_ Woman's aptitude for religion--Her need for a protection--Relation between the sexual and religious emotions--Deprivation of love and satiety of love the sources of religious needs--Religious prostitution--Religio-erotic festivals--Sexual mysticism in Christianity--The lives of the saints--Religious sexual perceptions--Their influence on the emotional feminine character--A personal experience--The association between love and salvation--The same sense of the eternal in the religious and the sexual impulse--Asceticism--Its origin in the sexual emotions--Preoccupation of the ascetic with sex needs--The transformation of the sex-impulse into spiritual activities--Examples--The modern ascetic--The fear of love--This the ultimate cause of the contempt of woman--Example of Maupassant's priest--In love the way of salvation. CHAPTER IX APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTER WITH SOME FURTHER REMARKS ON SEX DIFFERENCES I.--_Women and Labour_ "The fullest ideal of the woman-worker is she who works not merely or mainly for men as the help and instrument of their purpose, but who works with men as the instrument yet material of her purpose."--GEDDES AND THOMPSON.