a development of activity, mental and physical, in the woman, that she
might ultimately develop into a being so superior to the male and so widely
different from the man, that the bond of sympathy between the sexes might
ultimately be broken and the man cease to be an object of affection and
attraction to the woman, and the woman to the man through mere
dissimilarity. The future these persons seem to see, more or less vaguely,
is of a social condition, in which, the males of the race remaining
precisely as they are today, the corresponding females shall have advanced
to undreamed of heights of culture and intelligence; a condition in which
the hand-worker, and the ordinary official, and small farmer, shall be
confronted with the female astronomer or Greek professor of astonishing
learning and gifts as his only possible complementary sex companion; and
the vision naturally awakens in these good folk certain misgivings as to
sympathy between and suitability for each other, of these two widely
dissimilar parts of humanity.

It must of course at once be admitted, that, were the two sexual halves of
humanity distinct species, which, having once entered on a course of
evolution and differentiation, might continue to develop along those
distinct lines for countless ages or even for a number of generations,
without reacting through inheritance on each other, the consequences of
such development might ultimately almost completely sever them.

The development of distinct branches of humanity has already brought about
such a severance between races and classes which are in totally distinct
stages of evolution. So wide is the hiatus between them often, that the
lowest form of sex attraction can hardly cross it; and the more highly
developed mental and emotional sex passion cannot possibly bridge it. In
the world of sex, kind seeks kind, and too wide a dissimilarity completely
bars the existence of the highest forms of sex emotion, and often even the