ctly and logically grasped as the basis of their action. The truth
that, as the first primitive human males and females, unable to count
farther than their fingers, or grasp an abstract idea, or feel the
controlling power of social emotion, could only develop into the
Sapphos, Aristotles, and Shelleys of a more expanded civilisation, if
side by side, and line by line, male and female forms have expanded
together; if, as the convolutions of his brain increased in complexity,
so increased the convolutions in hers; if, as her forehead grew higher,
so developed his; and that, if the long upward march of the future is
ever to be accomplished by the race, male and female must march side by
side, acting and reacting on each other through inheritance; or progress
is impossible. The truth that, as the existence of even the male Bushman
would be impossible without the existence of the analogous Bushwoman
with the same gifts; and that as races which can produce among their
males a William Kingdon Clifford, a Tolstoy, or a Robert Browning, would
be inconceivable and impossible, unless among its females it could also
produce a Sophia Kovalevsky, a George Eliot, or a Louise Michel; so,
also, in the future, that higher and more socialised human race we dream
of can only come into existence, because in both the sex forms have
evolved together, now this sex and then that, so to speak, catching
up the ball of life and throwing it back to the other, slightly if
imperceptibly enlarging and beautifying it as it passes through their
hands. The fact that without the reaction of interevolution between the
sexes, there can be no real and permanent human advance; without the
enlarged deep-thinking Eve to bear him, no enlarged Adam; without the
enlarged widely sympathising Adam to beget her, no enlarged widely
comprehending Eve; without an enlarged Adam and an enlarged Eve, no
enlarged and beautified generation of mankind on earth; that an arrest
in one form is an arrest in both; and in the upward march of the entire
human family. The truth that, if at the present day, woman, after her
long upward march side by side with man, developing with him through
the countless ages, by means of the endless exercise of the faculties of
mind and body, has now, at last, reached her ultimate limit of growth,
and can progress no farther; that, then, here also, today, the growth
of the human spirit is to be stayed; that here, on the spot of woman's
arrest, is the