er nebulously and vaguely, but we believe we should not
mistake this view, by saying that there are a certain class of perfectly
sincere and even moderately intelligent folk who hold a view which,
expressed exactly, would come to something like this--that the entrance
of woman into new fields would necessitate so large a mental culture and
such a development of activity, mental and physical, in the woman, that
she might ultimately develop into a being so superior to the male and
so widely different from the man, that the bond of sympathy between the
sexes might ultimately be broken and the man cease to be an object of
affection and attraction to the woman, and the woman to the man through
mere dissimilarity. The future these persons seem to see, more or less
vaguely, is of a social condition, in which, the males of the race
remaining precisely as they are today, the corresponding females shall
have advanced to undreamed of heights of culture and intelligence; a
condition in which the hand-worker, and the ordinary official, and
small farmer, shall be confronted with the female astronomer or Greek
professor of astonishing learning and gifts as his only possible
complementary sex companion; and the vision naturally awakens in these
good folk certain misgivings as to sympathy between and suitability for
each other, of these two widely dissimilar parts of humanity.

It must of course at once be admitted, that, were the two sexual halves
of humanity distinct species, which, having once entered on a course
of evolution and differentiation, might continue to develop along those
distinct lines for countless ages or even for a number of generations,
without reacting through inheritance on each other, the consequences of
such development might ultimately almost completely sever them.

The development of distinct branches of humanity has already brought
about such a severance between races and classes which are in totally
distinct stages of evolution. So wide is the hiatus between them often,
that the lowest form of sex attraction can hardly cross it; and the more
highly developed mental and emotional sex passion cannot possibly bridge
it. In the world of sex, kind seeks kind, and too wide a dissimilarity
completely bars the existence of the highest forms of sex emotion, and
often even the lower and more purely animal.

Were it possible to place a company of the most highly evolved human
females--George Sands, Sophia Kovalevskys,