with life.

It is often said that the labour problem before the modern woman and that
before the unemployed or partially or almost uselessly employed male, are
absolutely identical; and that therefore, when the male labour problem of
our age solves itself, that of the woman will of necessity have met its
solution also.

This statement, with a certain specious semblance of truth, is yet, we
believe, radically and fundamentally false. It is true that both the male
and the female problems of our age have taken their rise largely in the
same rapid material changes which during the last centuries, and more
especially the last ninety years, have altered the face of the human world.
Both men and women have been robbed by those changes of their ancient
remunerative fields of social work: here the resemblance stops. The male,
from whom the changes of modern civilisation have taken his ancient field
of labour, has but one choice before him: he must find new fields of
labour, or he must perish. Society will not ultimately support him in an
absolutely quiescent and almost useless condition. If he does not
vigorously exert himself in some direction or other (the direction may even
be predatory) he must ultimately be annihilated. Individual drones, both
among the wealthiest and the poorest classes (millionaires' sons, dukes, or
tramps), may in isolated cases be preserved, and allowed to reproduce
themselves without any exertion or activity of mind or body, but a vast
body of males who, having lost their old forms of social employment, should
refuse in any way to exert themselves or seek for new, would at no great
length of time become extinct. There never has been, and as far as can be
seen, there never will be, a time when the majority of the males in any
society will be supported by the rest of the males in a condition of
perfect mental and physical inactivity. "Find labour or die," is the