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to be attained. But from our general biological point of view it 

 seems that a more promising line of experiment would be that of 

 providing specialised education for medical women — not "easier" 

 nor "lower", or any nonsense of that sort, but different— so that there 

 might arise, not duplication of one type of medical servant in the 

 State, but two distinct types of medical servant. 



It is an ordinary rule of all our lives that we try to find out the 

 kind of work which is natural to us, which we can do most effectively 

 or least ineffectively. We know that it is foolish waste to be always 

 trying to do something which other people can do much better. We 

 seek to make the most of our particular capacities, keeping economy 

 of energy as well as efficiency in view. And our main thesis is just 

 this same simple one applied to Man and Woman, that the most 

 hopeful line of evolutionary experiment is that which seeks to make 

 the most of the deep organic differences which were rooted long ago 

 in the lowest beginnings of life. 



WOMAN, AND HER SOCIAL EVOLUTION 



After our discussions of Sex and its biological significance, and 

 our later outlines of woman's characteristic features and her an- 

 thropo-social contributions, what remains to be said of her — woman 

 herself, as we see and observe her (she has always known how to 

 make us do that!), even to this day? Artists have ever painted and 

 sculptured her, as from "the Venus of Les Eyzies" to the Venus 

 of Milo in the Louvre; and these through widest contrast, from the 

 Hottentot ideal of perfection to the Hellenic. Theologians and 

 moralists have by turns cursed her and sainted her, fled her and 

 worshipped her, and even philosophers have done the like as well. 

 Psychologists, throughout the past generation especially, have 

 laboured often and long to analyse her perplexing mentality, till 

 now Freud and his resultant schools are busiest ; and certainly with 

 significant progress, and increasing demonstrations of her influences 

 on man's life and throughout human society; and these often deeper 

 and intenser than she had desired or dreamed. We present writers 

 should be the last to undervalue the significance of sex, since with 

 this our collaboration and its continued studies began full forty 

 years ago; yet after all sex is for life and humanity, not these 

 centred too exclusively on sex alone ; deeply influential towards the 

 flowering or the rotting of human life although it so deeply is. In 

 our great modern towns, that have too often never been true cities, 

 or no longer deserve the name, youth answers to The Call of the 

 City Streets (by Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago; one of the 

 most important social utterances of our time on the sex question 

 in its social aspect). So sex often runs wild, and worse; while in later 

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