Women -- Economic conditions; Women -- Employment; Women -- Social and moral questions
The development of distinct branches of humanity has already brought
about such a severance between races and classes which are in totally
distinct stages of evolution. So wide is the hiatus between them often,
that the lowest form of sex attraction can hardly cross it; and the more
highly developed mental and emotional sex passion cannot possibly bridge
it. In the world of sex, kind seeks kind, and too wide a dissimilarity
completely bars the existence of the highest forms of sex emotion, and
often even the lower and more purely animal.
Were it possible to place a company of the most highly evolved human
females--George Sands, Sophia Kovalevskys, or even the average cultured
females of a highly evolved race--on an island where the only males
were savages of the Fugean type, who should meet them on the shores
with matted hair and prognathous jaws, and with wild shouts, brandishing
their implements of death, to greet and welcome them, it is an undoubted
fact that, so great would be the horror felt by the females towards
them, that not only would the race become extinct, but if it depended
for its continuance on any approach to sex affection on the part of the
women, that death would certainly be accepted by all, as the lesser of
two evils. Hardly less marked would be the sexual division if, in place
of cultured and developed females, we imagine males of the same highly
evolved class thrown into contact with the lowest form of primitive
females. A Darwin, a Schiller, a Keats, though all men capable of the
strongest sex emotion and of the most durable sex affections, would
probably be untouched by any emotion but horror, cast into the company
of a circle of Bushmen females with greased bodies and twinkling eyes,
devouring the raw entrails of slaughtered beasts.
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