physiological fact that what is congenial to woman impresses itself
upon her as true. All that sober science in the form of history and
physiology would seem to entitle us to hope from the future of woman
is that she will develop _pari passu [step by step]_ with man; and
that education will teach her not to retard him overmuch by her
lagging in the rear.

In view of this larger issue, the question as to whether woman has, in
any real sense of the word, been making progress in the course of the
present generation, loses much of interest.

If to move about more freely, to read more freely, to speak out her
mind more freely, and to have emancipated herself from traditionary
beliefs--and, I would add, traditionary ethics--is to have advanced,
woman has indubitably advanced.

But the educated native too has advanced in all these respects; and he
also tells us that he is pulling up level with the white man.

Let us at any rate, when the suffragist is congratulating herself on
her own progress, meditate also upon that dictum of Nietzsche,
"Progress is writ large on all woman's banners and bannerets; but one
can actually see her going back."


III

WOMAN'S DISABILITY IN THE MATTER OF PUBLIC MORALITY

Standards by which Morality can be Appraised--Conflict between