332 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- 
ress. Money or title, or place or secu- 
tity, 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 
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 Grénland. 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, ezzuz,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. 
The equal 
marriage. 
Being a woman. 
