214.

[280] Crawley (_The Mystic Rose_, p. 41 et seq.) gives numerous instances.

[281] Revillout, "La Femme dans l'Antiquite," _Journal Asiatique_, 1906,
vol. vii, p. 57. See, also, Victor Marx, _Beitraege zur Assyriologie_,
1899, Bd. iv, Heft 1.

[282] Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 196, 241 et seq. Nietzold, (_Die Ehe in_
"_Agypten_," p. 17), thinks the statement of Diodorus that no children
were illegitimate, needs qualification, but that certainly the
illegitimate child in Egypt was at no social disadvantage.

[283] Amelineau, _La Morale Egyptienne_, p. 194; Hobhouse, _Morals in
Evolution_, vol. i, p. 187; Flinders Petrie, _Religion and Conscience in
Ancient Egypt_, pp. 131 et seq.

[284] Maine, _Ancient Law_, Ch. V.

[285] Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 109, 120.

[286] _Mercator_, iv, 5.

[287] Digest XLVIII, 13, 5.

[288] Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, vol. i, p. 213.

[289] For an account of the work of some of the less known of these
pioneers, see a series of articles by Harriet McIlquham in the
_Westminster Review_, especially Nov., 1898, and Nov., 1903.

[290] The influence of Christianity on the position of women has been well
discussed by Lecky, _History of European Morals_, vol. ii, pp. 316 et
seq., and more recently by Donaldson, _Woman_, Bk. iii.

[291] Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. clviii, p. 680.

[292] Rosa Mayreder, "Einiges ueber die Starke Faust," _Zur Kritik der
Weiblichkeit_, 1905.

[293] Rasmussen (_People of the Polar North_, p. 56), describes a
ferocious quarrel between husband and wife, who each in turn knocked the
other down. "Somewhat later, when I peeped in, they were lying
affectionately asleep, with their arms around each other."

[294] Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, vol. ii, p. 367. Dr. Stoecker, in
_Die Liebe und die Frauen_, also insists on the significance of this
factor of personal responsibility.

[295] Olive Schreiner has especially emphasized the evils of parasitism
for women. "The increased wealth of the male," she remarks ("The Woman's
Movement of Our Day," _Harper's Bazaar_, Jan., 1902), "no more of
necessity benefits and raises the female upon whom he expends it, than the
increased wealth of his mistress necessarily benefits, mentally or
physically, a poodle, because she can then give him a down cushion in
place of one of feathers, and chicken in place of beef." Olive Schreiner
believes that feminine parasitism is a danger which really threatens
society at the present