would die out. And the extent to which any woman today, not herself
belonging to the parasite class and still labouring, attempts to follow
afar off the fashions of the parasite, may be taken generally as an almost
certain indication of the ease with which she would accept parasitism were
its conditions offered her. The tendency of the cultured and
intellectually labouring woman of today to adopt a more rational type of
attire, less shaped to attract attention to the individual than to confer
comfort and abstain from impeding activity, is often spoken of as an
attempt on the part of woman slavishly to imitate man. What is really
taking place is, that like causes are producing like effects on human
creatures with common characteristics.)

But there remain certain psychic differences in attitude, on the part of
male and female as such, which are inherent and not artificial: and, in
the psychic human world, it is exactly as we approach the sphere of sexual
and reproductive activity, with those emotions and instincts connected
directly with sex and the reproduction of the race, that a difference does
appear.

In the animal world all forms of psychic variations are found allying
themselves now with the male sex form, and then with the female. In the
insect and fish worlds, where the female forms are generally larger and
stronger than the male, the female is generally more pugnacious and
predatory than the male. Among birds-of-prey, where also the female form
is larger and stronger than the male, the psychic differences seem very
small. Among eagles and other allied forms, which are strictly monogamous,
the affection of the female for the male is so great that she is said never
to mate again if the male dies, and both watch over and care for the young
with extreme solicitude. The ostrich male form, though perhaps larger than
the female, shares with her the labour of hatching the eggs, relieving the