INDEX OF SUBJECTS

Adolescence, 124 —— and advertisements, 135 —— and alcohol, 228 Alcohol, 54, 100 —— accessibility of, 360 —— and expectant motherhood, 367 —— and breast-feeding, 371 —— and industrialism, 360, 377 —— and tobacco versus children, 201, 251, 354 —— widows and orphans, 350 —— and womanhood, 348 et seq. Alcoholism and lead poisoning, 379 —— and offspring, 380 —— and Jewish survival, 382 et seq. Anti-Suffrage societies, 16 Asceticism, old and new, 102 Bees, arguments from, 31, 84, 322 Birth-rate, fall of, 288 et seq. —— and infant mortality, 301 —— and marriage-rate, 312 Board of Education Syllabus, 121 Breast feeding, 333 et seq. —— and alcohol, 371 "British Medical Journal" on meat, wines, etc., 361 et seq. Brooding instinct in fowls, 82 Canada's need of women, 269 Childless marriage, 244 Children Act, 265, 372 Climacteric, 21, 77, 98 Confirmation and adolescence, 124 Conservation of energy, 64 —— and higher education, 79 Contagious diseases, 219 Corset, 120, 186 et seq. Cycling for women, 119 Dancing, 120, 122 Degeneracy and inaction, 42 Determination of sex, 72 et seq. Divorce, conditions of, 291 et seq. —— versus separation, 293 —— in Germany, 293 —— Law Reform Union, 293 Dolls and their significance, 95, 166 Education, definition of, 156 —— and instruction, 161, 172 —— for motherhood, 151, 158 et seq. Educational question, 43 Endowment of motherhood, 282 et seq., 308 Engagements, length of, 135 Eugenic feminism, 7 Eugenics, passim. "Evolution of Sex," 67 Exercise in girls' schools, Herbert Spencer on, 104 et seq. Expectant mother, 143, 367 Fabian Society, 182 Femaleness, constitution of, 76 Games versus dumb-bells, 110 —— mixed, 113 Gameto-genesis, 82 Germ cells and germ plasm, 27, 28, 81, 206, 367 —— its immortality, 29 —— and sex inheritance, 74 Girls' clubs, 123 —— clothing, 125 Gonorrhœa, 223 et seq. Gymnastics versus play, 109 Hæmophilia, 3 Happiness in marriage, 236 Heredity and responsibility, 195 Heredity of sex, 73 Higher education, 151 —— in London, 128 —— and marriage rate, 78 —— and conservation of energy, 79 Highest education, 154 Identical twins, 55 Illegitimacy, 148, 304, 336, 384 Infant mortality, 70, 172, 177, 194, 259, 325 Infant mortality and alcohol, 370 Insanity, 54, 225 Instinct and emotion, 164 Instinct, Spencer's definition of, 164 Insurance for motherhood, 315 Joy, physiological value of, 112 Kaiser's creed, 11 Knossos, 186 Law of multiplication, 66 Leprosy, 220 Maleness, constitution of, 76 "Man before speech," 39 Marriage age, 196 —— Metchnikoff on, 199 —— and quality of children, 204 —— conditions of, 258 —— and the "superfluous woman," 259 et seq. "Marriage as a Trade," 202 Marriage, social function of, 307 Married women's labour, 306 Mars, the parallel from, 50 Maternal instinct, 163 et seq. —— McDougall on, 168 et seq. —— in the cat, 171, 177 —— alleged decadence of, 174 et seq. Mendelism, 4, 67, 74, 75, 81 et seq., 330 Menstrual function, 108 Monogamy and its critics, 272 Monogamy and polygamy, 261 "Morning Post," quotation from, 340 Mortality in childbirth, 217 Mosaic legislation, 147 Mother and child worship, 148 Motherhood, endowment of, 282 —— physical and psychical, 83 Motherhood insurance, 315 "Mrs. Warren's Profession," 138 Muscles, relative value of, for women, 117 Muscularity and vitality, 99 Natural selection, 32 Nature and nurture, 52, 214 Neanderthal skull, 38 Notification of Births Act, 132 Organic analysis by Mendelism, 81 Parental instinct, 95 Parthenogenesis, 72 Patent medicines and alcohol, 361 et seq. Physical fitness for marriage, 208 Physical training of girls, 99 Physiological division of labour, 87 Play centres, 22 Preventive eugenics, 24 Progress and the nervous system, 102 —— definition of, 37 —— the two kinds of, 38 Prudery, 130, 132 et seq. Psychical fitness for marriage, 211 Puberty, 98, 124 Racial instinct, 167, 180, 225 Racial poisons, 24, 382 Radium, 35 "Reproduction" and "parenthood," 141 Rescue homes, 137 "Richard Feverel," 191 Rights of mothers, 293 et seq. —— of women, 319 Scotland, educational strain at puberty, 115 Separation versus divorce, 293 "Sex and Character," 68 Sex equality and sex identity, 56 et seq. Sex and breathing, 93, 94 Sex and the blood, 93 Sex in childhood, 92 Sex antagonism, 391 "Sexual instinct" and "racial instinct," 144 et seq. Sexual attraction, Spencer on, 240 et seq. Sexual selection, 144 Skipping, 122 Socialism, 182 —— and motherhood, 282 Socialism and responsibility, 309 Swedish gymnastics, 121 Swimming, 120 Syphilis, 54, 222 et seq. Terms of specialization, 87 Transmutation of instinct, 171 —— of sex, 251 Vacation schools, 22, 114 Variation within a sex, 89 —— amongst women, 90 Venereal diseases, 219 et seq. Venus of Milo, 120, 186 Vital imports and exports, 267 Vitality superior in women, 99 Widowhood, causes of, 217 —— and motherhood, 303 Women and colonization, 268 et seq. "Women's Charter," 311, 315 Women and economics, 327 et seq.

INDEX OF NAMES

Aristotle, 39 Aurelius, Marcus, 257 Bacon, 182 Ballantyne, Dr. J. W., 370 Bateson, 77 Bonheur, Rosa, 58 Botticelli, 184 Bouchard, 290 Brieux, 138, 221 Budin, Prof., 336 Bunge, Prof. von, 334, 371 Burke, 225 Burns, John, 325 Butler, Lady, 58 Carlyle, 8 Chesterton, G. K., 266, 333 Clouston, 21 Coleridge, 40, 178, 184 Croom, Sir Halliday, 119 Darwin, 26, 47 Duncan, Miss Isadora, 123 Duncan, Dr. Matthews, 210 Ehrlich, 233 Eliot, George, 58 Ellis, Dr. Havelock, 61, 93, 118, 119, 186 Evans, Dr. Arthur, 186 Fawcett, Mrs., 21 Forel, 86, 149 Galton, 7, 52, 203, 205, 208, 211 Geddes and Thomson, 65, 84 Gilman, Mrs. C. P., 327, 393 Goethe, 225 Haeckel, 82 Hamilton, Miss Cicely, 202 Haynes, E. S. P., 293 Helmholtz, 36 Horsley, 254 Huxley, 46 Kelvin, 35 Key, Ellen, 8, 59, 347 Kipling, 188 Laitinen, Prof. Taav, 381 Lamarck, 158 Lister, 20, 209 Maclaren, Lady, 315 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 325 Marshall, Prof. Alfred, 381 McDougall, Dr. W., 165 Meredith, 48, 142 Metchnikoff, 199 Mill, J. S., 174 Milne-Edwards, 87 Minot, 87 Mosso, 120 Mott, Dr. F. W., 356 Napoleon, 305 Nation, Carrie, 23 Newman, Sir George, 121 Newsholme, Dr. A., 384 Nightingale, Florence, 17 Pasteur, 217 Pearson, Karl, 205, 380 Phillpotts, Eden, 191 Plato, 2, 56, 182 Rotch, Prof. Morgan, 336 Ruskin, 19, 48, 150, 157, 189, 345 Sappho, 58 Scharlieb, Dr. Mary, 371 Shakespeare, 52 Spencer, Herbert, 6, 45, 48, 64, 81, 104, 129, 156, 159, 171, 240, 320 St. Francis, 46 St. Paul, 150 Stevenson, 154 Sullivan, Dr. W. C., 376, 381 Thales, 64 Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 21 Ward, Lester, 72, 261 Weininger, 68 Weismann, 26, 28, 82 Wells, H. G., 182, 282, 310, 313 Westermarck, 186 Wordsworth, Dorothy, 14 Wordsworth, 13, 48, 159, 189, 256