or even the average cultured
females of a highly evolved race--on an island where the only males
were savages of the Fugean type, who should meet them on the shores
with matted hair and prognathous jaws, and with wild shouts, brandishing
their implements of death, to greet and welcome them, it is an undoubted
fact that, so great would be the horror felt by the females towards
them, that not only would the race become extinct, but if it depended
for its continuance on any approach to sex affection on the part of the
women, that death would certainly be accepted by all, as the lesser of
two evils. Hardly less marked would be the sexual division if, in place
of cultured and developed females, we imagine males of the same highly
evolved class thrown into contact with the lowest form of primitive
females. A Darwin, a Schiller, a Keats, though all men capable of the
strongest sex emotion and of the most durable sex affections, would
probably be untouched by any emotion but horror, cast into the company
of a circle of Bushmen females with greased bodies and twinkling eyes,
devouring the raw entrails of slaughtered beasts.

But leaving out even such extreme instances of diversity, the mere
division in culture and mental habits, dividing individuals of the same
race but of different classes, tends largely to exclude the possibility
of at least the nobler and more enduring forms of sex emotion. The
highly cultured denizen of a modern society, though he may enter into
passing and temporary and animal relations with the uncultured peasant
or woman of the street, seldom finds awakened within him in such cases
the depth of emotion and sympathy which is necessary for the enjoyment
of the closer tie of conjugal life; and it may be doubted whether the
highest, most permanent, and intimate forms of sexual affection ever
exist except among humans very largely identical in tastes, habits
of thought, and moral and physical education. (In Greece at a certain
period (as we have before noted) there does appear to have been a
temporary advance of the male, so far in advance of the female as to
make the difference between them almost immeasurable; but he quickly
fell back to the level of the woman.) Were it possible that the entrance
of woman into the new fields of labour should produce any increased
divergence between man and woman in ideals, culture, or tastes, there
would undoubtedly be a dangerous responsibility incurred by any who
fostered