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eering woman in modern Britain, and not to an inhabitant of Utopia. 

 In that, or some other republic of the future, not only is woman to be 

 different, but man also; the sexes are to lose their characteristic dis- 

 tinctions not simply by the conversion of woman into man, but by the 

 partial conversion of man into woman. As soon as this sexual com 

 promise has been effected, by means not clearly described, the world 

 will enjoy what enthusiastic heathens used to call the golden age, and 

 what modern enthusiasts of another school now call the millennium. 

 Envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness, will disappear , there 

 will be neither wars nrr rumors of wars, and an angelic pop ilation 

 will know its own place and limit itself to its own number. Mankind 

 will then have developed itself into a species of gigantic trade-union, 

 in which women and their accomplices will infallibly be " rattened " 

 if they create too much competition among men. 



A state of society in which humanity shall no longer be human, in 

 which not only sex, but intellect and emotion, shall have been remod- 

 elled, and the aspect of the outer world changed by a new and meta- 

 physical cosmogony, is, like the doctrine of abstract right, beyond the 

 grasp of the humble Anthropologist. His occupation will be gone as 

 soon as that era shall commence. But, until then, until murder, theft, 

 and villany of every kind, shall have been extinguished, until that 

 struggle for existence, which pervades all Nature and constitutes the 

 only healthy check upon population, shall have been abolished, until 

 every evil passion shall have been rooted out, he may perhaps be per- 

 mitted to raise his feeble protest against innovations which would not 

 only subvert man's civilized customs but contradict Nature's first les- 

 sons. If statesmanship can amend the laws which press hard upon 

 some unfortunate and exceptional women, if ingenuity can devise 

 harmless occupations for mothers whom prosperity or adversity has 

 deprived of their maternal cares, in short, if any grievance can be met 

 with a remedy which is not opposed to the teachings of science, every 

 human being will have cause for gratitude. If men have met with 

 women who prefer political to domestic life, and despise all conceptions 

 but those which are purely mental, let them in the name of liberty cul- 

 tivate their acquaintances ; but let them also, in the name of liberty 

 and in the name of Nature, permit other men and other women to 

 choose for themselves. If they have but little liking for women who 

 are womanly, if they care nothing for the conversation and the tone of 

 thought which are most in accordance with woman's voice, and mouth, 

 and brain, if they are unable to realize that pleasure which either sex 

 may derive from the sense of intellectual difference, let them by all 

 means endeavor to gratify themselves, according to their own constitu- 

 tion, but let them not, Vandal-like, attempt to destroy those beauties 

 which they do not appreciate. Anthropological Review 



