illustrating how essential to the humanising and civilising of man, and
therefore of the whole race, was an increased sense of sexual and
paternal responsibility, and an increased justice towards woman as a
domestic labourer. In the last half of the same chapter I dealt at great
length with what seems to me an even more pressing practical sex
question at this moment--man's attitude towards those women who are not
engaged in domestic labour; toward that vast and always increasing body
of women, who as modern conditions develop are thrown out into the
stream of modern economic life to sustain themselves and often others by
their own labour; and who yet are there bound hand and foot, not by the
intellectual or physical limitations of their nature, but by artificial
constrictions and conventions, the remnants of a past condition of
society. It is largely this maladjustment, which, deeply studied in all
its ramifications, will be found to lie as the taproot and central
source of the most terrible of the social diseases that afflict us.

The fact that for equal work equally well performed by a man and by
a woman, it is ordained that the woman on the ground of her sex alone
shall receive a less recompense, is the nearest approach to a wilful
and unqualified "wrong" in the whole relation of woman to society today.
That males of enlightenment and equity can for an hour tolerate the
existence of this inequality has seemed to me always incomprehensible;
and it is only explainable when one regards it as a result of the
blinding effects of custom and habit. Personally, I have felt so
profoundly on this subject, that this, with one other point connected
with woman's sexual relation to man, are the only matters connected with
woman's position, in thinking of which I have always felt it necessary
almost fiercely to crush down indignation and to restrain it, if I would
maintain an impartiality of outlook. I should therefore much regret if
the light and passing manner in which this question has been touched on
in this little book made it seem of less vital importance than I hold
it.

In the last chapter of the original book, the longest, and I believe the
most important, I dealt with the problems connected with marriage and
the personal relations of men and women in the modern world. In it I
tried to give expression to that which I hold to be a great truth, and
one on which I should not fear to challenge the verdict of long future
gener