ore suitors
than had she remained a governess or cook, labouring as hard, earning
thirty pounds.

While, if the statement that the female entering on new fields of labour
will cease to be lovable to the male be based on the fact that she will
then be free, all history and all human experience yet more negates its
truth. The study of all races in all ages, proves that the greater the
freedom of woman in any society, the higher the sexual value put upon
her by the males of that society. The three squaws who walk behind the
Indian, and whom he has captured in battle or bought for a few axes or
lengths of tobacco, and over whom he exercises the despotic right of
life and death, are probably all three of infinitesimal value in his
eyes, compared with the value of his single, free wife to one of our
ancient, monogamous German ancestors; while the hundred wives and
concubines purchased by a Turkish pasha have probably not even an
approximate value in his eyes, when compared with the value which
thousands of modern European males set upon the one comparatively free
woman, whom they may have won, often only after a long and tedious
courtship.

So axiomatic is the statement that the value of the female to the male
varies as her freedom, that, given an account of any human society in
which the individual female is highly valued, it will be perfectly safe
to infer the comparative social freedom of woman; and, given a statement
as to the high degree of freedom of woman in a society, it will be safe
to infer the great sexual value of the individual woman to man.

Finally, if the suggestion, that men and women will cease to be
attractive to one another if women enter modern fields of labour, be
based on the fact that her doing so may increase her intelligence and
enlarge her intellectual horizon, it must be replied that the whole
trend of human history absolutely negates the supposition. There is
absolutely no ground for the assumption that increased intelligence and
intellectual power diminishes sexual emotion in the human creature of
either sex. The ignorant savage, whether in ancient or modern societies,
who violates and then clubs a female into submission, may be dominated,
and is, by sex emotions of a certain class; but not less dominated
have been the most cultured, powerful, and highly differentiated male
intelligences that the race has produced. A Mill, a Shelley, a Goethe,
a Schiller, a Pericles, have not been more noted f