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FOOT-NOTES TO EVOLUTION. 



onic traits. In the division of labour this is necessarily 

 the case. If it were not, there would need be no divi- 

 sion of sex, and womanhood and manhood would be 

 identical. 



"... Could we make her as the man, 

 Sweet love were slain. His dearest bond is this, 

 Not like to like, but like to difference." 



When woman has perfect freedom of choice in mar- 

 riage, there will be more love in the world than now. 



Too many women now marry under du- 



The equal t>, , •,, , 



.^ ress. Money or title, or place or secu- 



marriage. . '' ' 



nty, are not valid reasons for marriage. 

 The chances are that a union on such a basis will never 

 prove a marriage at all. Nor is it right that marriage 

 should rest on mere propinquity. The choice of the 

 nearest scarcely rises above the automatic loves of the 

 lower animals. 



In the conditions arising from an expanding civiliza- 

 tion, the art of being a woman becomes a difficult one. 



^ . It is unsafe on the one hand not to take 



Being a woman. ... . , . ,, , . . 



part in industrial or intellectual activi- 

 ties. On the other hand, to be absorbed in these mat- 

 ters may be to lose sight of the more important func- 

 tions which must belong to woman in any condition of 

 social development. " Woe to the land that works its 

 women ! " says Laurence Gronland. But there is equal 

 woe to the land in which women find nothing to do. On 

 the human side idleness and inertia are just as destruc- 

 tive to women as to men. Brain and muscles must be 

 used each in its way, and the penalties for disuse are 

 stagnation, enmii, and misery. It is not every woman, 

 as matters are, who can find occupation in household 

 cares and in the training of children. To the extent 

 that women are not so occupied their need of thought 

 and action is not essentially different from that of men. 



