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students reading it, men have thus no longer 

 their old monopoly : for here are Clio and her 

 maidens re-writing and re-reading history 

 together; while her sister Calliope, the heroic 

 muse, is seeking how to renew her world-old 

 share in making it. And though thus to 

 some the muse of Tragedy seem also approach- 

 ing, Polymnia with her wisdom is not hope- 

 lessly far away. 



Does this long argument seem far-fetched 

 even outside our theme of sex? Not so; 

 that is but the fault, and the difficulty, of 

 our exposition. Put most simply and broadly 

 it amounts to this that in these lower and 

 still predominant phases of modern life we 

 call paleotechnic, woman has no organised 

 place, save as drudge to machines, as camp- 

 follower to imperial armies, or as white slaves 

 for finance. Whereas, in the neotechnic 

 order, already happily and demonstrably 

 nascent, woman reappears as all she ever 

 was at her best; and it yet may be more 

 as eupsychic inspirer and eugenic mother, 

 as instinctive synthetist, as educationalist, as 

 orderly home-planner and citizen ; and, by her 

 guidance of consumption, directing industry 

 and skill, ennobling utility into art. 



