machinery, 188; the positive, commits adultery owing to long absence of husband, 189; the best, faithful to Life before all else, 192; her adultery owing to husband’s impotence, 194; the childless, often takes up a Cause, 196 _n._; tries to rule man by giving him a guilty conscience, 197 _n._; more likely to go wrong in marriage through childlessness than the man, 205; the negative, endures childlessness much longer than the positive, 215; the negative, cultivates a taste for soulful literature and Christianity, 216; calls man who sees through her “prig,” 217; difference between positive and negative, in an illicit love affair, 220, 221; the negative, notoriously _grimacière_, 221; the surplus, and work outside the home, 267; being besotted by entering the work market, 267, 268; the number of surplus women in England, 274; should be destined for marriage alone by her parents, 276; suggested ways of dealing with the problem of the surplus, 276, 277; connected with evil from time immemorial, 280; lying “physiological” in, 281; her bondage an illusion, 289, 290, 296; her importance among the Teutons, Celts, and Early English, 290-2; in the Middle Ages, 293, 294; in the 16th and 17th centuries, 294-6; has consistently shown crass stupidity in her own peculiar domain, 298, 299; Life’s custodian, 300; her _primum mobile_ completely a-moral, 301; her lies vital, 302, 305; her lying necessarily extended to non-vital matters, 302-4; her five cardinal virtues, 307; modern Englishman’s erroneous view of her virtues, 308; her derivative virtues, 309-19; her laudable love of scandal, 311; her six cardinal vices, 318-43; her tact, 320; her lack of taste of vital necessity, 326-32; her incapacity to appreciate great men, 327-9; cannot forgive material failure in her men, 331; has no rank, 331, 332; her love of petty power, 332-6; must be controlled, 335, 336; her vanity, 336-40; danger of her vanity, 338; her vanity vital, 339, 340; vanity overcome by passion in the positive, 340; her sensuality, 340-4; her sensuality vital, 341, 342; the custodian of Life, 346; negligible in Art, Philosophy and Science, 346, 347; reasons for her turning to Science or Art, 349; cannot be changed without danger to the species, 350, 351; her thinking largely feeling, 351, 352; incompetent to act in any judicial capacity, 353, 355; her intuition, 355, 356; her psychic powers, 358, 359 WOMANHOOD, ideal of “true womanhood” cruel nonsense, 26, 27 WOMEN workers, their number, 263 _n._ WORKING-MAN, the, more gifted at love-making than his social superior, 154 _n._ _Printed in Great Britain by_ Butler & Tanner, _Frome and London_. Transcriber’s Notes