slime, and that still it forms as ever the warp on
which in the loom of human life the web is woven, and runs as a thread
never absent through every design and pattern which constitutes the
individual existence on earth, it appears not merely as ineradicable;
but it is inconceivable to suppose that that attraction of sex towards
sex, which, with hunger and thirst, lie, as the triune instincts, at
the base of animal life on earth, should ever be exterminable by the
comparatively superficial changes resulting from the performance of this
or that form of labour, or the little more or less of knowledge in one
direction or another.

That the female who drives steam-driven looms, producing scores of yards
of linen in a day, should therefore desire less the fellowship of her
corresponding male than had she toiled at a spinning-wheel with hand
and foot to produce one yard; that the male should desire less of the
companionship of the woman who spends the morning in doctoring babies in
her consulting-room, according to the formularies of the pharmacopoeia,
than she who of old spent it on the hillside collecting simples for
remedies; that the woman who paints a modern picture or designs a modern
vase should be less lovable by man, than her ancestor who shaped the
first primitive pot and ornamented it with zigzag patterns was to the
man of her day and age; that the woman who contributes to the support
of her family by giving legal opinions will less desire motherhood and
wifehood than she who in the past contributed to the support of
her household by bending on hands and knees over her grindstone, or
scrubbing floors, and that the former should be less valued by man than
the latter--these are suppositions which it is difficult to regard as
consonant with any knowledge of human nature and the laws by which it is
dominated.

On the other hand, if it be supposed that the possession of wealth or
the means of earning it makes the human female objectionable to the
male, all history and all daily experience negates it. The eager hunt
for heiresses in all ages and social conditions, make it obvious
that the human male has a strong tendency to value the female who can
contribute to the family expenditure; and the case is yet, we believe,
unrecorded of a male who, attracted to a female, becomes averse to her
on finding she has material good. The female doctor or lawyer earning a
thousand a year will always, and today certainly does, find m