truth. The study of all races in all ages, proves that the greater the
freedom of woman in any society, the higher the sexual value put upon her
by the males of that society. The three squaws who walk behind the Indian,
and whom he has captured in battle or bought for a few axes or lengths of
tobacco, and over whom he exercises the despotic right of life and death,
are probably all three of infinitesimal value in his eyes, compared with
the value of his single, free wife to one of our ancient, monogamous German
ancestors; while the hundred wives and concubines purchased by a Turkish
pasha have probably not even an approximate value in his eyes, when
compared with the value which thousands of modern European males set upon
the one comparatively free woman, whom they may have won, often only after
a long and tedious courtship.

So axiomatic is the statement that the value of the female to the male
varies as her freedom, that, given an account of any human society in which
the individual female is highly valued, it will be perfectly safe to infer
the comparative social freedom of woman; and, given a statement as to the
high degree of freedom of woman in a society, it will be safe to infer the
great sexual value of the individual woman to man.

Finally, if the suggestion, that men and women will cease to be attractive
to one another if women enter modern fields of labour, be based on the fact
that her doing so may increase her intelligence and enlarge her
intellectual horizon, it must be replied that the whole trend of human
history absolutely negates the supposition. There is absolutely no ground
for the assumption that increased intelligence and intellectual power
diminishes sexual emotion in the human creature of either sex. The
ignorant savage, whether in ancient or modern societies, who violates and
then clubs a female into submission, may be dominated, and is, by sex
emotions of a certain class; but not less dominated have been the most