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Chapter IV. Woman and War.
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But it may also be said, “Granting fully1 that you are right, that, as woman’s old fields of labour slip from her, she must grasp the new, or must become wholly dependent on her sexual function alone, all the other elements of human nature in her becoming atrophied2 and arrested through lack of exercise: and, granting that her evolution being arrested, the evolution of the whole race will be also arrested in her person: granting all this to the full, and allowing that the bulk of human labour tends to become more and more intellectual and less and less purely3 mechanical, as perfected machinery4 takes the place of crude human exertion5; and that therefore if woman is to be saved from degeneration and parasitism6, and the body of humanity from arrest, she must receive a training which will cultivate all the intellectual and all the physical faculties7 with which she is endowed, and be allowed freely to employ them; nevertheless, would it not be possible, and perhaps be well, that a dividing line of some kind should be drawn8 between the occupations of men and of women? Would it not, for example, be possible that woman should retain agriculture, textile manufacture, trade, domestic management, the education of youth, and medicine, in addition to child-bearing, as her exclusive fields of toil9; while, to the male, should be left the study of abstract science, law and war, and statecraft; as of old, man took war and the chase, and woman absorbed the further labours of life? Why should there not be again a fair and even division in the field of social labour?”
Superficially, this suggestion appears rational, having at least this to recommend it, that it appears to harmonise with the course of human evolution in the past; but closely examined, it will, we think, be found to have no practical or scientific basis, and to be out of harmony with the conditions of modern life. In ancient and
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dependence
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warrior
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investigator
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analytical
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grotesque
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innate
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organisation
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abortive
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peculiarities
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legislate
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restriction
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bartering
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entirely
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predilection
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undertaking
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deficit
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infancy
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sinister
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