when the first three women in England, some thirty odd years ago, sought to
enter the medical profession. At the present day scores of women prepare
to enter it yearly without attracting any general attention; not that the
change which is going on is not far more in volume and social importance,
but that, having overcome the first obstruction, it is now noiseless.)

Between the Emilias and Sophy Westerns of a bygone generation and the most
typical of modern women, there exists no greater gap (probably not so great
a one) as that which exists between the Tom Joneses and Squire Westerns of
that day and the most typical of entirely modern men.

The sexual and social ideals which dominated the fox-hunting, hard-
drinking, high-playing, recklessly loose-living country squire, clergyman,
lawyer, and politician who headed the social organism of the past, are at
least as distinct from the ideals which dominate thousands of their male
descendants holding corresponding positions in the societies of today, as
are the ideals of her great-great-grand mother's remote from those
dominating the most modern of New Women.

That which most forces itself upon us as the result of a close personal
study of those sections of modern European societies in which change and
adaptation to the new conditions of life are now most rapidly progressing,
is, not merely that equally large bodies of men and women are being rapidly
modified as to their sexual and social ideals and as to their mode of life,
but that this change is strictly complementary.

If the ideal of the modern woman becomes increasingly one inconsistent with
the passive existence of woman on the remuneration which her sexual
attributes may win from man, and marriage becomes for her increasingly a
fellowship of comrades, rather than the relationship of the owner and the