SPINSTER, the hateful, only made by the snubbed positive girl, 111; the cheerful, made by the negative girl, 112; her advice about girls to be suspected, 114 _n._; her outcry against wise marital infidelity, 166; the, always abnormal, 229-31; exercises an abnormal influence on society, 231-3; her “useful work” should be suspected, 232, 233; the positive and negative defined, 234, 235; the positive, a great conscious sufferer, 235-7; profound physiological disappointment of the Positive, 238; tendency to suicide in the very positive, 238, 239; neuropathic symptoms in the, 239, 240; affectation a sign of misery in the, 240; the various ways in which she seeks compensation, 240, 246; reason of her frequent choice of the teaching profession, 241; her jealousy of young girls, 246; the embittered, more common on the Continent than in England, 247; the negative, not a great conscious sufferer, 255; misinterpretations of the lack of sexual vigour in the negative, 256, 257; the danger of these misinterpretations, 257; will gravitate almost automatically to Christianity, 258; her love of the weak and the poor, 260; her hatred of men, 261; the negative becoming more prevalent in England, 262; increases economic difficulties, 263; the wealthy, inevitably a burden on society, 268-71; her good works a means of making herself important, 270; George Meredith on, 270; contaminates English opinion, 272; largely responsible for Feminism, 273; an abnormal influence, 273, 274; wisely provided for by the Catholic Church, 274, 275; the “annuitant” always a bane, 278; benevolent sequestration of the, desirable, 278 SPIRIT, the things of the, pall quickly, 86 STEPMOTHER, the bad, a good mother, 312, 313 _n._ STRAFFORD, ruled by social instinct, 45 SUBLIMATION of sex possible but undesirable outside a Church, 174; of sex may be accomplished through Christianity or alcohol, 248 SUICIDE, through disappointed love more common among women than men, 42 _n._; tendency to, in the positive spinster, 238, 239 TACITUS, emphasizes the important rôle of women among the Teutons, 290 TEACHER, pernicious influence of the unmarried, 241 TEUTONS, importance of women among the, 290 UNCONSCIOUS motives, actuating action, 40, 41; misunderstood by women, 43, 47-9 UNHEALTHINESS, defined, 50; the unhealthy woman approaches maleness, 51; makes woman an infidel towards Life, 52 UNSELFISH, a meaningless term, 197 UNSELFISHNESS, the, of motherhood one of the greatest lies produced by Western civilization, 79 VALUES, guide a man in his choice of a mate, 98, 99