Part 21

—— curse of excessive, 31.

—— economic profit of woman won through, 63.

—— woman’s amusement gained through, 308.

Sex-attributes different from race-attributes, 57.

Sex-characteristics, primary and secondary, 32, 33.

Sex-competition of primitive man, 60.

Sex-development, precocity of, in children, 54–56.

—— cause of exaggerated, 58.

—— one check to excessive, 72.

—— proofs of excessive, 84.

Sex-distinction, natural processes of, 29.

—— manifestations of, 32.

—— excessive, 33.

—— checks to, 35.

—— development of, in woman, 38.

—— woman’s means of getting a livelihood, 38.

—— primary and secondary, 40, 41.

—— normal and abnormal, 43.

—— psychic manifestation of, 47.

—— of women, 93.

Sex-energy, primal manifestation of, 42.

—— a racial wrong, 96.

—— excess of, 96.

—— result of excessive, 141.

Sex-function, woman’s preparation of food a, 235, 237.

Sex-indulgence, excess in, 30.

Sex-interest in marriage, 93.

Sex-life, the higher, 143.

Sex-prejudice of the Chinese, 69.

—— of the Hindu, 69.

Sex-relation and economic relation, 5.

—— phenomena of, in the human species, 23.

Sex-relation a field of human difficulty, 25.

—— maladjustment of, in humanity, 25.

—— a frightful source of evil, 26.

—— personal quality of, 83, 106.

—— feminine value of women in, 94.

—— only for sale among human beings, 95.

—— in marriage, 97.

—— not social relation, 105.

—— _vs._ sexuo-economic relation, 108.

Sex-relationship, 74.

—— wider human relationship not a wider, 304.

Sexual selection, process of, 111.

Sexuo-economic relation, effect of, 94.

—— benefit of, 136.

—— results of, 187, 329.

—— outgrown, 316.

—— selfishness fostered by, 338.

Shalott, Lady of, 87.

Share in social intercourse, woman’s, 295.

Shrew, Petruchio and the, 333.

Slave, vices of the, in woman, 333.

Slavery, results of chattel, 82.

—— opponents of chattel, 137.

Social condition, pressure of, on the Jew, 4.

—— consciousness, a vital force to-day, 143.

—— eating, bad effects of, 254.

—— evil, 28, 94.

—— evolution, a natural process, 95.

—— processes of, 102, 103.

—— existence, loyalty the first principle of, 274.

—— factor, what man the best, 326.

—— freedom before marriage, 309; after marriage, 310.

—— function, cooking a, 240; specialization of, 241; education a, 283; educative maternity a, 293.

—— heart, the, 156.

—— institution, chattel slavery a, 78.

—— intercourse, woman’s share in, 295; demand for free, between the sexes, 296; development of the true, 302; how to assist this development, 302; the new, 313.

—— interest _vs._ individual interest, 104–106; among women, 163; the larger, of cities, 267.

—— life, home life an accompaniment to, 222.

—— need, our, of one another, 306.

—— product, wealth a, 101.

—— progress, checks to, 24; the true, 142; home a limit to, 223.

—— qualities, 325.

—— relation, not sex-relation, 105; extension of, 123.

—— science, ethics a, 219.

—— sense, duty a, 276; struggle of the individual _vs._, 327.

—— servant, the mother as a, 290.

—— service, high and low forms of, 279.

—— spirit does not rest on a sex-basis, 143.

—— sympathy, growing activity of, 163.

—— unit, the family as a, 217.

Society, survival of the complex, 102.

—— woman’s relation to, 164.

—— the price of comfort in the home treason to, 278.

Sociological law, a remarkable, 80.

Sodom, 72.

Solomon, 50.

Somerville, Mary, 53.

Son, unnatural separation of mother and, 268.

Soul, question of woman’s, 68.

—— the human, in America, 148.

Sovereignty, man’s, due to accident of sex, 337.

Standard of motherhood, 185.

—— of food products, 228.

—— of good food, effects of a, 250.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 166.

Statesmanship, social quality of, 325.

Sterilized Milk, Pennywhistle’s, 196.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 137.

Stomach, no longer a family tie, 253.

Strain on family ties, family visiting a, 303.

Stripping of Persian captives, 73.

Struggle of individual sense _vs._ social sense, 327.

—— between good and evil, 329.

Submission, development of, in woman, 333.

Sumter, Fort, 146.

Surprised Britons about Boston Tea Party, 146.

Surroundings of infancy capable of betterment, 292.

Survival of a complex society, 102.

—— of harmful qualities, 327.

Sympathy, social, 163.

Systematic education, growth of, 285.

Table, a common, a common tie, 252.

Table-cloth, family unity bound by the, 244.

Tea Party, Boston, 146.

Temporary homes, 265.

Tendency of home life, 263.

Tennyson, quotation from, 147.

Term, virtue a relative, 274.

Thought, restriction of, in woman, 335.

“Three Old Maids of Lynn,” 88.

Tie, a common table a common, 252.

—— the stomach no longer a family, 253.

Ties, home, detrimental to personal development, 259.

—— family, strengthened by economic changes, 302.

—— family, family visiting a strain on, 303.

Tournament of the Middle Ages, 111.

Towers, the Duchess of, 148.

Training for motherhood, 202.

—— the wrong, for baby-culture, 270.

Transition, all periods of, painful, 296.

Treason to society, the price of comfort in the home, 278.

Trend, inevitable, of life, 73.

Tribe, an extension of the family, 215.

—— the pastoral unit, 215.

True family life, fulfilment of the, 268.

—— love, course of, 28.

—— marriage, increasing demand for, 218.

—— privacy, 256.

—— social progress, 142.

Truest motherhood, 290.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 161.

Uniform environment, result of, 64.

Unit, the family as a social, 217.

Unity, family, bound by a table-cloth, 244.

Universities of the Middle Ages, 285.

Unnatural separation of mother and son, 268.

Unpreparedness for motherhood, 192.

Unsatisfactory association among women, 307.

Unsuitable to maternity, professions, 246.

Use, familiarity by, 79.

Utah, the family in, 216.

Value of free association of the sexes, 314.

Vedas, the, 28.

_Vendetta_, an over-development of family devotion, 275.

—— of the Corsicans, 275.

Vice _vs._ virtue, 109.

—— promoted by the sexuo-economic relation, 312.

Vices of the slave in woman, 333.

—— of the master in man, 338.

Vigor of Greece, 72.

Virtue _vs._ vice, 109.

—— of loyalty, growth of, 274.

—— a relative term, 274.

—— of faith in religion, 322.

—— human distinction in, 322.

—— altruism the main distinction of human, 323.

—— Huxley on, 324.

—— of obedience, 325.

Virtues, savage, reflection of savage conditions, 321.

—— changing scale of, 322.

Voice of God, our good impulses called the, 328.

Wage-earners, women, with families, ideal home for, 242.

—— in New York, 242.

War, woman in, 165.

Ward, Lester F., quotation from, 171.

Wealth a social product, 101.

Wider human relationship not a wider sex-relationship, a, 304.

Wife, husband and, not business partners, 12.

—— supported by her husband, 18.

Will and action, discord of, in servitude, 333.

Wives as earners through domestic service, 14.

—— not salaried as mothers, 17.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 166.

—— club movement, 164.

—— movement, 122, 139, 144, 146.

Womanliness of home duties, 225.

Women as economic factors in society, 13; labor of, not a factor in economic exchange, 15.

—— as mothers, 15.

—— house service of, 20.

—— extra-maternal duties of, 21.

—— modification of, to sex, 39.

—— in proverb, 43, 50, 65, 71, 114.

—— development of sex-activity of, 44.

—— of the harem, 45.

—— of the Germanic tribes, 46.

—— feebleness of, a sex-distinction, 46.

—— of fiction, 50.

—— over-sexed, 54.

—— first enslaving of, 60.

—— results of enslaving of, 61.

—— fed and defended by men, 61.

—— economic profit of, won through sex-attraction, 63.

—— restrictions upon, 66.

—— work of, 67.

—— specialization and organization forbidden to, 67.

—— Paul’s command to, 68.

—— question of soul in, 68.

—— attitude of, toward marriage, 86.

—— independence of, 91.

—— results of repression of, 119.

—— past sacrifices of, 134.

—— economic dependence of, ending, 138.

—— as martyrs, 147.

—— among the pioneers, 147.

—— progress of, 148, 149.

—— as workers, 152, 153.

—— specialized, 155.

—— desire of, for work, 157.

—— extension of functions in, 160.

—— social interest among, 163.

—— relation of, to society, 164.

—— in war, 165.

—— spirit of heroic, 166.

—— development of, 168.

—— specialization of, 169, 171.

—— economic dependence of rich, 170.

—— place of, in nature, 171.

—— and home life, 204.

—— food and, 226, 227.

—— practice of cooking by, 229.

—— preparation of food by, a sex-function, 235–237.

—— wage-earners, with families, ideal home for, 242.

—— wage-earners in New York, 242.

—— motherhood of, and the choice of professions by, 246.

—— free, and their homes, 257.

—— household decoration of, an expression of economic dependence, 257.

—— share of, in social intercourse, 295.

—— gradual individualization of, 295.

—— entrance of, upon a more individual life, 297.

—— peace and comfort for, 300.

—— forced by their needs to marriage, 300.

—— result of economic independence of, 304.

—— unsatisfactory association of, 307.

—— amusements of, gained through sex-attraction, 308.

—— embarrassments of young man visiting, 311.

—— cost of pleasing, 312.

—— new estimate of true manhood by, 315.

—— personality of, 315.

—— becoming economically independent, 316.

—— condition of, the doorway of evil, 329.

—— result of arrested development of, 330.

—— vices of the slave in, 333.

—— development of submission in, 333.

—— restriction of thought in, 335.

—— large moral sense of, 335.

—— one-sided contribution of, to moral progress, 335.

—— retarding influence of, restricted, 336.

—— self-conscious centres of moral influence, 336.

—— psychic qualities of, a result of the sexuo-economic relation, 337.

World, a servile, 262.

—— organized motherhood productive of a nobler, 294.

—— a humanly related, 313.

—— the, the flesh, and the devil, 328.

Work, woman’s, 67.

—— woman’s desire for, 157.

—— loyalty to our, 276.

Workers, women, 152, 153.

Working for human improvement, 317.

Worship, of the home, 204.

—— family, in China, 223.

Wrong relation between parent and child, 272.

—— training for baby-culture, 270.

Young man, education of the, 188.

—— in the city, 311.

—— new incentive for, 315.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Contents added by transcriber. 2. P. 265, changed “household gods” to “household goods”. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors. 4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.

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