t passionately seek for
the breaking down of all artificial lines which sever the woman from the
man, many of the ablest and most uncompromising are the works of males.

The New Man and Woman do not resemble two people, who, standing on a
level plain, set out on two roads, which diverging at different angles
and continued in straight lines, must continue to take them farther and
farther from each other the longer they proceed in them; rather, they
resemble two persons who start to climb a spur of the same mountain from
opposite sides; where, the higher they climb the nearer they come to
each other, being bound ultimately to meet at the top.

Even that opposition often made by males to the entrance of woman into
the new fields of labour, of which they at present hold the monopoly,
is not fundamentally sexual in its nature. The male who opposes the
entrance of woman into the trade or profession in which he holds more
or less a monopoly, would oppose with equal, and perhaps even greater
bitterness, the opening of its doors to numbers of his own sex who
had before been excluded, and who would limit his gains and share his
privileges. It is the primitive brute instinct to retain as much
as possible for the ego, irrespective of justice or humanity, which
dominates all the lower moral types of humanity, both male and female,
which acts here. The lawyer or physician who objects to the entrance of
women to his highly fenced professional enclosure, would probably object
yet more strenuously if it were proposed to throw down the barriers of
restraint and monetary charges, which would result in the flooding
of his profession by other males: while the mechanic, who resists the
entrance of woman into his especial field, is invariably found even
more persistently to oppose any attempt at entrance on the part of other
males, when he finds it possible to do so.

This opposition of the smaller type of male, to the entrance of woman
into the callings hitherto apportioned to himself, is sometimes taken as
implying the impossibility of fellowship and affection existing between
the men and women employed in common labour, that the professional
jealousy of the man must necessitate his feeling a hatred and antagonism
towards any one who shares his fields of toil. But the most superficial
study of human life negates such a supposition. Among men, in spite
of the occasional existence of the petty professional jealousies and
antagonism, we find