A further examination of the sexual differences—The knowledge we have gained does not enable us definitely to settle the problem—The necessity of considering Nurture—Woman's character to some extent the result of circumstance, to some extent organic—The difficulties of the problem—Standards of comparison—Incompleteness of our knowledge—New researches on sex-differences—The confusion of opinions—Women and men different, but neither superior to the other—The position of women in society to-day—The increasing surplus of women—How can a remedy be found?—Woman's place in the home—The changes in modern conditions—Women and labour—The damning struggle for life—Sweated work—Women's wages—The marketable value of woman's sex—This the explanation of the smallness of women's wages—The prostitute better paid than the worker—Woman's strength as compared with man's—Are women really the weaker sex?—Woman's work capacity equal to man's, but different—The Spanish women—The intolerable conditions of labour in commercial countries—Women more deeply concerned than men—The real value of women's work—This must be recognised by the State—The social service of child-bearing—The primary and most important work of women—The present revolt of women—How far is this justifiable—A caution and some reflections.

II.—Sexual Differences of the Mind and the Artistic Impulse in Women

The mental and psychical sexual differences—Ineradicability of these—Can they be modified or disregarded?—The masculine and feminine intellectual qualities—Caution necessary in making any comparison—Example, a tenacious memory—Is this a feminine characteristic?—Woman's intuition—Its value—Each sex contributes to the thought power of the other—The artistic impulse—Is genius to be regarded as an endowment of the male?—An examination of the grounds for this view—Untenability of the opinion of the greater variational tendency of men—The question needs reopening—The influence of environment and training on woman's mind—What woman can, or can not, do as yet unproved—Woman's talent for diplomacy—The separation between the mental life of the sexes—The result on woman's mind—The revolt against repression—Woman as she is represented in literature—The woman of the future—Woman the cause of emotion in men—Part played by women in early civilisations—What men learnt from them—Woman's emotional endowment—Her affectability and response to suggestion—These the qualities essential to success in the arts—A comparison between the qualities of genius and the qualities of woman—This opens up questions of startling significance—What women may achieve in the future—Some suggestions as to the effect of the entrance of women into the arts.

III.—The Affectability of Woman—Its Connection with the Religious Impulse

Woman's aptitude for religion—Her need for a protection—Relation between the sexual and religious emotions—Deprivation of love and satiety of love the sources of religious needs—Religious prostitution—Religio-erotic festivals—Sexual mysticism in Christianity—The lives of the saints—Religious sexual perceptions—Their influence on the emotional feminine character—A personal experience—The association between love and salvation—The same sense of the eternal in the religious and the sexual impulse—Asceticism—Its origin in the sexual emotions—Preoccupation of the ascetic with sex needs—The transformation of the sex-impulse into spiritual activities—Examples—The modern ascetic—The fear of love—This the ultimate cause of the contempt of woman—Example of Maupassant's priest—In love the way of salvation.