this valuation could justify society in restricting, a priori, the right of a single one of its members _to develop_ his capacities, even though these capacities might take such a direction, later, that society would be compelled to limit their _exercise_. Spencer arrived by the deductive method at the same demand Romanticism reached earlier by the intuitive method. Romanticism recognised that in the measure in which the individual is unusual he must be also unintelligible, for he shows to the majority only his surface; his innermost soul only to those in harmony with him. Even in the family circle the individual often remains therefore undiscovered. How much more then must society, composed for the most part of Philistines, outrage the individual if it concedes rights to one category, to one sex, to one class, and not to the other! And from this point of view the Romanticists drew for women also the logical conclusion of individualism. They pointed out that the sex character, carried _to the extreme_, furnished neither the highest masculine nor the highest feminine type; that each sex must develop in itself both noble human _universality_ and individual _peculiarity_. And this the great woman personalities did who shared the destiny of the Romanticists. They were thereby fully and wholly able to share also the intellectual life of their husbands. Love became thus a unity of souls. The romantic ideal of love was expressed in _La Nouvelle Héloise_, in Goethe’s letters to Charlotte von Stein, in Rahel, in Mme. de Staël. It was found in the first half of the 19th century in many great women; for example, George Sand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Camilla Collett. It appeared in Shelley and in the Swedish poet Almquist, in Stuart Mill and Robert Browning, also in certain French and German poets and thinkers. This ideal has now been for some centuries the ideal of most women and of not a few men of feeling. But since a truly psychic unity is possible only between two beings who are, in outer as in inner sense, _free_, exactly for this reason, “romantic love” has as consequence the demand for the emancipation of woman.