us to find out whether really intimate association with woman on the
purely intellectual plane is realisable. And if it is, in fact,
unrealisable, it will be necessary to consider whether it is the
exclusion of women from masculine corporations; or the perpetual
attempt of women to force their way into these, which would deserve to
be characterised as _selfish_.

In connexion with the former of these issues, we have to consider here
not whether that form of intellectual co-operation in which the man
plays the game, and the woman moves the pawns under his orders, is
possible. That form of co-operation is of course possible, and it has,
doubtless, certain utilities.

Nor yet have we to consider whether quite intimate and purely
intellectual association on an equal footing between a particular man
and a selected woman may or may not be possible. It will suffice to
note that the feminist alleges that this also is possible; but
everybody knows that the woman very often marries the man.

What we have to ask is whether--even if we leave out of regard the
whole system of attractions or, as the case may be, repulsions which
come into operation when the sexes are thrown together--purely
intellectual intercourse between man and the typical unselected woman
is not barred by the intellectual immoralities and limitations which
appear to be secondary sexual characters of woman.

With regard to this issue, there would seem to be very little real
difference of opinion among men. But there are great differences in
the matter of candour. There are men who speak out, and who enunciate
like Nietzsche that "man and woman are alien--never yet has any one