which sex difference does play its part, because it is here that woman, the
bearer of the race, must stand side by side with man, the begetter; if a
completed human wisdom, an insight that misses no aspect of human life, and
an activity that is in harmony with the entire knowledge and the entire
instinct of the entire human race, is to exist. It is here that the man
cannot act for the woman nor the woman for the man; but both must interact.
It is here that each sexual half of the race, so closely and
indistinguishably blended elsewhere, has its own distinct contribution to
make to the sum total of human knowledge and human wisdom. Neither is the
woman without the man, nor the man without the woman, the completed human
intelligence.

Therefore;--We claim, today, all labour for our province! Those large
fields in which it would appear sex plays no part, and equally those
smaller in which it plays a part.


Chapter VI. Certain Objections.

It has been stated sometimes, though more often implicitly than in any
direct or logical form, (this statement being one it is not easy to make
definitely without its reducing itself to nullity!) that woman should seek
no fields of labour in the new world of social conditions that is arising
about us, as she has still her function as child-bearer: a labour which,
by her own showing, is arduous and dangerous, though she may love it as a
soldier loves his battlefield; and that woman should perform her sex
functions only, allowing man or the state to support her, even when she is
only potentially a child-bearer and bears no children. (Such a scheme, as
has before been stated, was actually put forward by a literary man in
England some years ago: but he had the sense to state that it should apply