ied as a "third sex," that of
temperamental neuter, says:

"Economic conditions are compelling women to enter with men into
the fierce competition of our disordered social state. Partly due
to this reason, though much more, as I think, to the strong
stirring in woman of her newly-discovered self, there has arisen
what I should like to call an over-emphasized Intellectualism.
Where sex is ignored there is bound to lurk danger. Every one
recognizes the significance of the advance in particular cases of
women towards a higher intellectual individuation, and the social
utility of those women who have been truly the pioneers of the new
freedom; but this does not lessen at all the disastrous influence
of an ideal which holds up the renunciation of the natural rights
of love and activities of women, and thus involves an irreparable
loss to the race by the barrenness of many of its finest types.
The significance of such Intellectuals must be limited, because
for them the possibility of transmission by inheritance of their
valuable qualities is cut off, and hence the way is closed to a
further progress. And, thus, we are brought back to that simple
truth from which we started; there are two sexes, the female and
the male, on their specific differences and resemblances blended
together in union every true advance in progress depends--on the
perfected woman and the perfected man."

[Sidenote: Young women misled by sexual pessimists.]

One who studies carefully the various aspects of the extreme feministic
movement must admit that there are many signs of the dangers which the
above quotations point out so clearly. Of course, we cannot believe in
the sincerity of all of the numerous women of thirty-five to fifty
years who pretend to ignore sex completely. Probably most of them have
discovered that they have misunderstood themselves; but it is also
probable that they have discovered too late for making a readjustment
in their own lives. However, it matters little whether such women have
really succeeded in ignoring sex. The real problem for educational
attack lies in the fact that such women often succeed in proselyting
young women under twenty-five, and these in turn may not come to see
the real truth about sex and life until ten or fifteen years later.
Clearly, organized education must protect young women against such
influences.

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