MATERNITY, the pains of, exaggerated by modern women to give man a guilty conscience, 77; only intolerably painful in disease, 78; only “unselfish” in the case of a sick or badly formed woman, 78; increasing number of women suffering from, to-day, 79; only self-sacrifice in the case of sick females, 148 _n._ MEMORY, ancestral, in women, 234 MEREDITH, George, on wealthy spinsters, 270 MILL, John Stuart, a henpecked philosopher, 282; inspired by his wife, 282; his foolish remarks on the nature of woman, 283-7; his false assumptions regarding woman, 289; a sentimental liar concerning women, 296; a pernicious liar, 345 MODESTY defined, 224 MONOGAMY, natural to some animals but unnatural for man, 126; advantages of, chiefly social, 134-7; regulates the procreation of children, 138; disadvantages of, 139-67; precludes all change and respite, 140, 141; more satisfactory to the female than to the male, 148, 149, 150; may inflict sexual abstinence on the male during pregnancy of the wife, 165; productive of ill-health and degeneracy, 165 MORTAL Life, desirable together with sex and other means thereto, 6-8, 12, 13; includes pain, 10; intellectual justification required for constant attacks upon, 12; to be called Life, as being the only kind of Life we know, 13 MOTHER, the, loved by the true artist, 71; the positive, consciously desires her full sexual cycle, 77; importance of the early training of the child by the, 314, 315 MOTHER’S milk, abominable substitutes for, 164 NAPOLEON, ruled by social instinct, 45; his dictum that women have no rank, 331, 332; and Madame de Staël, 337 NEGATIVENESS, defined, 13; noisy laughter a sign of, 17; the attitude of, towards childhood, 22; in woman, the outcome of sickness or degeneracy, 35 NEGATIVISM, responsible for chastity in England, 96; excellent from the Puritan point of view, 96; causes of deterioration to, 108-11; physical disorders due to, 112; positive girl converted to, by her husband, 118; in women through lack of mastery in men, 121, 122; incapable of lasting emotion, 130; impossible to calculate the vagaries of, 213; due to an atonic condition of the body, 215; confounds motherhood with martyrdom, 215; never guided by passion, 227 NIETZSCHE, ruled by social instinct, 45 OLD MAID, the, less enthusiastic about “Woman’s Cause” than the negative wife, 218 (_see also_ SPINSTER) OLD TESTAMENT, honest in its attitude to disease, 101 ORDER, means greater happiness and security, 60 ORGASM, the, alone unsatisfying for the woman, 195 PAIN, to be accepted because necessary to Mortal Life, 13; the depth and distinction gained by, 107 PARENTS, should destine their daughters for marriage only, 276