most complete celibacy, not less would the most typical of modern men
shrink from the prospect of a lifelong fetterment to the companionship of
an always fainting, weeping, and terrified Emilia or a Sophia of a bygone
epoch.

If anywhere on earth exists the perfect ideal of that which the modern
woman desires to be--of a labouring and virile womanhood, free, strong,
fearless and tender--it will probably be found imaged in the heart of the
New Man; engendered there by his own heighest needs and aspirations; and
nowhere would the most highly developed modern male find an image of that
which forms his ideal of the most fully developed manhood, than in the
ideal of man which haunts the heart of the New Woman.

Those have strangely overlooked some of the most important phenomena of our
modern world, who see in the Woman's Movement of our day any emotional
movement of the female against the male, of the woman away from the man.

We have called the Woman's Movement of our age an endeavour on the part of
women among modern civilised races to find new fields of labour as the old
slip from them, as an attempt to escape from parasitism and an inactive
dependence upon sex function alone; but, viewed from another side, the
Woman's Movement might not less justly be called a part of a great movement
of the sexes towards each other, a movement towards common occupations,
common interests, common ideals, and towards an emotional sympathy between
the sexes more deeply founded and more indestructible than any the world
has yet seen.

But it may be suggested, and the perception of a certain profound truth
underlies this suggestion; How is it, if there be this close reciprocity
between the lines along which the advanced and typical modern males and