Agriculture, must be restored, 347

Alexander, F. M., his epoch-making discovery with regard to faulty co ordination, 309–15; on conscious control, 351–7; the vital importance of this, 357

Amazons, the, of Dahomey, sadistic spinsters, 93 n.; their alleged contempt of men, 107

Americans, their inability to establish a proper attitude towards the female, 96 n.

Apes, heads of infant, nearer human type than those of adult apes, 30 n.; their degeneration, 31

Aristocracy, impossible without the superiority of the animal man, 225 n.

Aristophanes, and the woman question in Greece, 69

Armour, arguments from old, no refutation of charge of degeneracy, 150–6; heaviness of old, 154

Army, the, statistics regarding progressive physical deterioration in, 189–95, 366–8

Arnold, Matthew, his misunderstanding of religion, 211 n.

Art, man the only sex to achieve greatness in all departments of, 44; modern, the product of exhaustion, 233

Artificial aids, no cure for degeneracy, 320

Artificial feeding, a cause of degeneracy, 163, 164; morbidity of infants brought up on, 183, 184

Artist, the average modern, a man who lacks control, 232

Asceticism, in various cultures, 273–5, 294–6; as a ruling idea foreign to Jews, Hindus and Mohammedans, 274, 275; in Egypt, 290, 291

Athens, nothing of outstanding merit produced by women of, 66; downfall of, coincided with female emancipation, 72

Athletes, usually nervous and strained, 325

Australian bushmen, their genius in tracking quarry, 52

Bachelors, some great, 135

Bachofen, his misleading use of the term matriarchy, 80, 81

Beauty, Prynne on sinfulness of, 284; Stendhal's definition of, 298

Body, the exaltation of the soul above the, 272; must cease to be despised, 399

Bolshevism, the outcome of Christian values, 212, 222, 223

British Empire, the, the greatest potential force for good, xi; won by might, xii; atrocities committed by, xii n.

Buckle, his sentimentality, 124; his doubtful sexual potency, 132, 133

Cæsar, degeneracy of men and women in time of, 88 n.

Cancer, increase of, due to longevity, 150; increase of, 166 n., 196; not so prevalent in rural districts, 170

Carlyle, Thomas, his impotence, 133 n.

Castrates, of both sexes tend to resemble the male, 23

Castration, for everybody a logical consequence of Christian doctrine, 292

Castration Complex, a possible psycho-analytical explanation of women's fight for the vote, 120, 121

Cat, the large-headed female a bad mother, 13 n.; possesses central control, 352

Catholic Church, the, its Pagan tolerance, 240

Catholics, the most truly religious of Christians, 208 n.

Cato, opposed repeal of the Oppian Law, 74

Chamberlain, Joseph, his idea of the Federation of Empire, 327

Character, decline of, owing to decline in health, 215

Charles I, foresaw decline of England, 219; a defender of liberty, 228, 229; obliged to use violence with his wife, 247 n.; a golf player, 322

Chieftainship, its origin among primitive tribes, 53; magic and sorcery inextricably related to, 56 n.

Child, the, sexual love enters into relationship of parent and, 18 n.; exalted on account of sex-phobia, 19, 254; its false prestige in England, 253; Wordsworth's monumental misunderstanding of, 254; better understood by Browning, 255; as a certificate of potency, 256

Child care, women's ineptitude with regard to, 64

Children, their exaggerated importance due to sex-phobia, 19; illegitimate, still trace descent through mother, 83; not understood by women, 28, 253; progressive physical deterioration of, 186–9; the Englishman's attitude towards, determined by sex-phobia, 253; and vanity, 254; attitude towards, must be changed, 350

Chivalry, definition of, 244; some instances of, 245, 246; without responsibility, 246, 247; the Englishman's mistaken idea of, 246, 247; the wrong sort of, a sign of mental softening, 248

Christ, His lack of humour, 214

Christian Fathers, concupiscence their idea of original sin, 291

Christianity, associates shame with sexual act, 127; destructive of true religion, 208; the parent of Bolshevism, 212; identical with Socialism, 221–3; dysgenic influence of, 271–80; its exaltation of the soul above the body, 272; its deep-rooted asceticism, 275–7; makes physiological consideration superfluous, 278; its dysgenic doctrine of pity, 280; sacrifices the greater to the less, 282, 283, 340; dysgenic because it puts moral above æsthetic values, 284–6; its hostility to sex, 286–303; evidences of sex-phobia in, 287; morality of, only attacked by Nietzsche, 298

Chucunaque, provide rare instance of approach to matriarchy owing to extreme degeneracy of men, 92

Church of England, concerned chiefly with morality, 209

Complex, used merely as term of abuse, 140

Concupiscence, regarded as original sin by early Christians, 291, 292

Condorcet, recommended votes for women, 77; his sentimentality, 124; his doubtful sexual potency, 132

Conservative Party, the, bankrupt in ideas, 224

Constipation, prevalence of, among sedentary workers, 168

Cooking, where still in the hands of women is atrocious, 64

Co-ordination, faulty, a cause of degeneration, 271, 309–15; in games, 325, 326; accounts for disease, 351

Copulation, ardour of animals in, 10, 11

Cows, large-headed, not good milkers, 13 n.

Criminals, not always degenerates, 322

Cross-breeding, dysgenic influence of, 306, 307

Culture, decline in, robbed England of self-confidence in self-assertion, 219, 220; a superior, justifies wars of aggression, 220

Darwin, on the precocity of females, 6 n.; on feeding of young by both sexes, 7; had only the problems of his work to deal with, 67; misinterpretation of his doctrine of evolution, 79

Degeneracy, some false ideas of, 140; charge of, resisted by vain people, feminists and doctors, 141 n., 180, 181; definition of, 143; atavistic, racial and national, 144, 145; possession of valour not sufficient refutation of charge of, 146; not disproved by increased longevity, 149, 150; charge of, cannot be refuted by arguments from old armour, 150; caused by bad food, 157–9; by humanitarianism, 159, 160; by modern medicine, 162; by artificial feeding of infants, 163, 164; by factory life, 164, 168; and by urban life, 169–74; charge of, resisted by unscrupulous optimists, 182; prevalence throughout western civilization, 266; owing to Christian values, 272; owing to miscegenation, 304–9; through faulty co-ordination, 309–15; modern medicine as a cause of, 315–21; owing to the wrong selection of type, 321; sport a cause of, 324–8; specialization a cause of, 328, 329; owing to an inadequate standard of manliness, 330–2; the only cure for, the reform of man himself, 337; Alexanderism as a cure for, 351–8

Degenerate, used merely as a term of abuse, 141

Democracy, must be abolished, 347

Dental caries, increase of, 188–91; partly due to food, 189

Derby, the, only once won by a mare, 36

Diabetes, increase of, 196, 197

Discipline, the most important element in education, 350

Divorces, increase in, possibly due to Englishman's fear of sex-initiation, 239

Education, elementary, responsible for decay of intelligence among the masses, 263, 264; reform of necessary, 349

Egypt, matrilineal descent in ancient, 86; asceticism in, 290, 291

Egyptians, the, marriage customs of, 103, 104; their sound attitude towards the body, 275; forbad gymnastics, 326

Ellis, Havelock, his interpretation of woman's infantile nature, 28–33

Emotionalism, though a feminine characteristic not now confined to women, 226; a psychological infirmity in the male, 227

England, before the Industrial Revolution, well fed, 158; the whole of, degenerate to-day, 227, woman and child slavery in, at time she fought for negro emancipation, 245

English, the, the best fed people in the fifteenth century, 158; their health when they were still agricultural, 160; the wastefulness of, 173; had the lowest health record of the Allies, 326

Englishman, the, no longer able to maintain his supremacy, ix; a bad example to the world, x; the "manly" ruled by his women, xviii; his sense of guilt in connection with childbirth, 126; his belief in woman's moralizing influence, 130; his lack of religion, 211; his love of humour a bad sign, 213, 214; at his best a particularist, 215, 216; owing to decline of culture now doubtful of desirability of self-assertion, 129, 220; now deprived of personal liberty, 230, his radical inability to master sex, 234; his sex-phobia owing to Puritanical values, 235; thinks Puritanism "gentlemanly," 236; his misunderstanding of his "lady" bride, 236; often marries a widow through fear of sex, 238; a monk in mufti, 240; his lack of versatility, 234; his notion of chivalry

makes him an easy prey to women, 244, 245; his mistaken idea of chivalry, 246; his lack of penetration, 248; not respected by his mate, 249; to-day lacks will, 250–2; his attitude to the child determined by sex-phobia, 253

Epidemics, decrease in, not necessarily argument against charge of degeneracy, 147, 148

Equality, between man and woman obviously nonsense, 45; claim of sexual, a symptom of male degeneracy, 48; and of a decline of civilization, 67

Exhibitionism, normal in the female, 16

Factory life, a cause of degeneration, 165

Female, the, her adaptation to the male older than to her progeny, 4; her relationship to progeny gradually complicated, 5; resembles her young owing to arrested development, 6; the passive partner in coition, 8, 16; finds pleasure in exhibitionism, 16

Feminism, definition of, ix n.; a condemnation of man, xv; began in the home, xvii; its false interpretation of the disparity between male and female achievement, 51; took its root in Greece among the hetairæ, 68, 69; a quack cure, 117, 335; inspired by contempt of the male, 118, 119; triumph of, due to male support, 122, 138; sentimentality among supporters of, 124, 137; a proof of male degeneracy, 138 n.; increases dysgenic influence of Christianity, 283

Feminists, their wrong explanation of women's inferiority, 51, 63; some early French, 115 n.; men, generally below par sexually, 132, 133

Fetish, an engine of government, 56 n.

Fish, reason for eating, on Christian fast days, 292

"Fit," the, segregation of, exceedingly difficult, 336; how segregation of might be possible, 346

Food, adulteration of, a cause of degeneracy, 157–9

Football, a most unhealthy game formerly forbidden in England, 324

France, the Revolution in, heralded by feminine emancipation, 76; some powerful Feminists in, 76

Frazer, Sir J. G., on origin of Kings, 54 n.; on profession of magic, 55 n.; on sorcerers, 57; on gynæcocracy, 95 n.; on mistake of confounding mother-kin with mother-rule, 97

French Revolution, the disorderly behaviour of women during, 77; cruelty of women during, 90

Genius, more common in men than in women, 25, 34, 37; in man due to his full development, 43

Gibbon, had only the problems of his work to deal with, 67; on degeneracy of Romans, 144; on valour, 146

Gissing, G., on the curse of sex, 234

Goethe, had only the problems of his work to deal with, 67

Greece, in early, inferiority of women strongly asserted, 68; rise of Feminism during decline of, 70

Gymnastics, recommendation of, suicidal to-day, 315; forbidden by the ancient Egyptians, 326

Haire, Norman, quoted, 241

Handicrafts, must be revived, 347

Happiness, dependent on sex life on fulfilment of specialized functions, 9–11, 14, 16; of women incomplete without motherhood, 20

Heathcliff, the finest male character created by a woman, 38

Hetairæ, the, companions of men, 68; Greek Feminism took its root among, 68, 69; powerful when Athens was degenerate, 70, instructed Socrates, 89, 90

Hindus, their healthy attitude towards sex and procreation, 287–8

Hormones, their formative influence, 34

Humanitarianism, excessive, merely inverted sadism, 91; a cause of degeneracy, 159, 160

Humour, a sign of shallowness and lack of vigour, and lacking in all great men, 213, 214; denotes lack of passion, 241

Ibsen, his sentimentality, 124; his doubtful sexual potency, 132; his Puritanism, 133

Idiocy, more common among men than women, 25 n., 38

Illumination, in the art of, women always inferior to men, 65, 66

Immunity, in our day artificial and not natural, 147; relation between, and degeneracy, 149

Impotence, leads to maudlin attitude towards women, 125, 130, 136

In-breeding, eugenic value of, 304, 309

Incest, eugenic value of, 304–7

Industrialism, diseases due to, 167; stultifying influence of, on the mind, 168

Infants, morbidity of, through artificial feeding, 183, 184; increased mortality and disease among artificially fed, 184–6; tables of deaths of, 185

Insanity, increasing, owing to density of population, 174

Intelligence, general decline of, 261, 262; this among the masses due to elementary education, 264; decline of, also due to ill health, 264

Jews, the, their regulations concerning the care of the body, 275; their superior health due to in-breeding, 308, 309

John the Baptist, an oriental ascetic, 275

Joseph, false interpretation of his repudiation of Potiphar's wife, 103

Keith, Sir A., on skulls, 198; on posture, 354

Lactation, a comparatively recent function, 3; a need and pleasure to the female, 12, 13; poor capacity for, or cessation of, means less maternal attachment, 13; a toll on women, 35

Lane, Arbuthnot, his view of civilization, 220 n.; on incurability of chronic disease, 316

Law, modern, always in favour of the woman, 251

Lecky, revolting nonsense written by, concerning sexuality, 127 n., 299 n., 344

Lepers, the burning of, 160; tainted food considered good enough for, in the Middle Ages, 161

Lesbians, unfair and unscientific to call women, xiii

Liberty, the decline of, owing to despotism of democracy, 228, 229; Charles I a defender of, 228, 229; now a myth in England, 230

Little Englander, the, rise of, due to decline in culture, 220

Longevity, not necessarily an argument against charge of degeneracy, 149, 150

Love, can only be inspired by the lovable, xiv; between the sexes in animals sometimes very great, xiv; between male and female the oldest of the instincts, 12, artistically consummated leads to the greatest bliss, 18; sexual, disturbed by offspring, 18; of the sexes more primordial than of offspring, 19; arts of, destroyed by Christian sex-phobia, 235

Lunacy, some statistics about, 175–7; increase of, 196, 197

Lunatics, some statistics about, 175–7

Magic, a useful social function in primitive societies, 56; a means whereby the ablest men acquired power, 59, 62

Male, the, the senior sex, 3, 4; in animals frequently develops paternal feelings, but is also often jealous of youth, 14; leads in everything after successful consummation of love, 18

Mammals, the male less changed than the female in course of evolution among, 3, 4

Man, as father the chief sufferer in the family, 20; his greater variational tendency, 25, 34; age of maturity in, 27 n.; understanding of child psychology due to, 28; light toll of reproduction on, 36; his shorter sexual cycle, 36, 43; great agility of, 36, 43; late ageing of, 36, 43; genius and idiots more common in, 38; the senior sex, 40, 42; the pioneer in every sphere, above all in that of religion, 41, 44; and woman essentially unlike, 42, 47; naturally equipped for achievement in every sphere, 44, 45; has played most distinguished rôle in civilization, 50; always the leader, 50; the superior, chosen for utilitarian motives as leader, 52, 53; not necessarily chosen as leader on account of physical strength alone, 54, 55; instances of gifted men being chosen as leaders in savage tribes, 58–61; his achievement in spite of unfavourable circumstances, 67; his powerful position in mother-right societies, 84–6, 96; femininity in, made recessive in virile cultures, 87; retrogression of, gives impression of equality between the sexes, 116; guilty conscience of modern, with regard to procreation, 126; psychology of the impotent, 136, 137; now emotional in his judgments, 225–8; lack of solidarity, too rapid reactions and too speedy absorptivity of modern, 258; increasing vanity and decline in vitality of modern, 259; increasing femininity of modern, 259–61; racial degeneracy of, universal, 265; the regeneration of, the only hope for the future, 267; not engaged to-day in manly occupations, 321, 322; modern, not his institutions at fault to-day, 333, 334, reform of, the only cure for degeneracy, 337, 342; what should be expected of the future, 342, 343; values concerning, must be altered, 342, 343; the receptivity of modern, a bad sign, 350

Manliness, secured by values, 87

Manu, Laws of, their insistence on the dependence of women, 101; allow a woman to choose a mate only when her father has failed to do so for her, 102; guard against dysgenic effects of miscegenation, 273; and ill-health, 274; on purity of women, 286; on the perfect man, 286

Maories, the, their chivalry, 244

Marx, Karl, found his data in English conditions x n.

Masculine Renaissance, the necessity for, 267; our only hope for the future, 337, 358; how to prepare for, 337–58; must precede revival of true religion, 338

Maternity, mammalian, an innovation in the sex relation, 12

Mathematicians, often subnormal in sex, 132

Mating, of unsound people forbidden by Brahmins and Buddhists, 278; change of taste regarding, necessary, 346

Matriarchy, fantastic theory of, 78; theory of, originated by Bachofen, 80; practically non-existent, 81, 84, 95; theory of, originated from confusion with mother kinship, 81, 82; among the degenerate Chucunaque, 91, 92

Matrimony, regarded as consummated without the act of procreation by early Christians, 293; regarded as inferior to virginity, 293, 294

McDonagh, J. E. R., on the nature of disease, 353 n.

Medicine, modern, a cause of degeneracy, 162, 271, 315–18; theological bias in, 157 n., 316; barbarian conception of, 317, suggested reform of, 348

Menstruation, a stress on woman's system, 23, 24, 35; in animals, 23 n.

Middle Ages, their healthy attitude towards the undesirable, 160, 161; rudimentary state of medicine in, 162

Mill, J. S., knew little about women, xiv; his wrong interpretation of Feminism, xiv; an under-sexed male, xvii n.; his false interpretation of female inferiority, 45 n., 63; his sentimentality, 124; on ignorance of Englishmen, 249

Miniature painting, women inferior in art of, 66 n.

Miscegenation, a cause of national decay, 218; a cause of degeneracy, 304–9

Misery, achieved by mating a sex break its bounds, 16

Mommsen, on the degenerates of Rome under Cæsar, 88 n.

Mongolians, an inferior race, 32

Monkeys, protection of the young by male, 14

Monogamy, intolerable for man and leads to degeneracy, 36

Moral indignation, always a suspicious manifestation, 249

Moralizing, modern meaning of, 128

Motherhood spoils relationship of woman to man, 20; woman incomplete without, 20, 38; maudlin attitude which regards, as self-sacrificing martyrdom, 125, 137

Mother-right, in primitive societies, 82, 83; leads to mistaken idea of matriarchy, 82, 83; among primitive tribes, 84, 85; power of males in, communities, 84–5, 96, 97; woman rule in, 84, in ancient Egypt, 86

Murderers, sentimental appeal for release of, 123 n.

Music, women have never achieved greatness in, 66 n.

Musonius Rufus taught equality of sexes in time of Nero, 76

Napoleon, inaugurated fresh manly era in France, 77; misunderstood by Madame de Staël, 260

Navy, the rejection of applicants for, 191; some statistics, 367

Negroes, an inferior race, 32 n.

Neurasthenia, in women caused by Puritanical fear, 17

Nietzsche, his penetrating analysis of Socrates, 90; a great bachelor, 135; understood degeneracy through knowledge of himself, 142; his mistaken idea of religion, 208 n.; his attack on Christian morality, 298

Nonconformity, its irreverence and lack of religion, 210, 211

Œdipus Complex, defeated by mother-right societies, 82

Offspring, disturb sexual love, 18; sexual love deeper than love of, 19

Old men, their vitality, 37 n.; chosen as leaders, 62; their jealousy of the young, 300, 301; their monopoly of young females, 300, 301

Old people, their jealousy of youth, 299–303; Registrar-General's Report of deaths of, 303, 304

Origen castrated himself for the Faith, 290

Original Sin, Christian doctrine of, 291

Over-population, among which a high percentage are degenerates, 175–8, 180

Parasite, the beloved, women's loss of freedom owing to, 35, 38; man's freedom from, 43; limits freedom of the female, 112, woman not unselfish in her care of, 129

Parliament, the idea of, essentially foreign, 215; hated in England when first introduced, 216; the break up of, now in progress, 347

Particularism, the noblest of manly attributes, 217; dependent on good health, 217

Parturition, a comparatively recent function, 3; a toll on women, 35; now a disease among women, 125

Paul, the most venemous of body haters, 277; his hostility to sex, 289, 295

Physical strength, not the only gift required for leadership, 54–62

Pitt-Rivers, Capt. G., quoted, 35, 56, 59, 202

Pity, dysgenic influence of Christian teaching of, 280–2; definition of right kind of, 280; modern concept of, must be altered, 340

Plato, his principle of the equality of the sexes, 69; de Quincey's condemnation of, 90 n.; his rules for securing sound human stock, 274

Plutarch, his description of the Greek wife, 69; on life in Sparta, 71

Poetry, women's limitations in, 37

Private judgment, right of, now a myth, 263

Progressive deterioration, proofs of, 180–95; of children, 186; in applicants for Army and Navy, 189–95

Prynne, on the sinfulness of beauty, 284

Purgatives, increasing demand for, 195

Puritan, the, anything better in the eyes of, than an artistic knowledge of sex, 238; incapable of religious feeling, 212

Puritanism, bound to lead to Feminism, 252, the creation of jealousy, 302 n.

Rats, in-breeding experiments on, 307

Religion, man the pioneer in, 41; women scarcely ever on an equality with men in, 41 n.; the root of, 205, 206; only possible for the vigorously endowed, 207, 208, 212, 213; decay of, in England, 208; Matthew Arnold's misunderstanding of, 211 n.; great things impossible without, 214; revival of true, impossible to-day, 338

Reproduction, a heavy toll on woman, 35; a light toll on man, 36

Roman matrons, their cruelty, 90

Romanticism, in men a sign of degeneration, 39

Rome, nothing of outstanding merit produced by women of, 66; fall of, coincided with female emancipation, 73–6; male and female degenerates of, under Cæsar, 88 n.; fell through miscegenation, 218

Ruskin, his sentimentality, 124; a maudlin woman-worshipper owing to impotence, 133, 134; his idea of chivalry, 134; went to extremes of silliness, 135

Sacrifice, ideas about, must be altered, 340

Sadism, maudlin humanitarianism merely a socially permitted form of, 91, 95; among women due to celibacy, 95

Sex, difference of, responsible for radical differences of nature, 8; functions of, pleasurable, 9; controls the part played by man and women in life, 15; man the senior, 40, 42; adaptation to, very deep rooted, 112, associated with shame in Christian countries, 127; modern Englishman's radical inability to master, 234; abstinence in, among men more common than is generally recognized, 237; lack of mastery in, due to lack of stamina, 239; hostility of Christianity to, 271; values regarding, must be changed, 344, 345

Sex characteristics, interchange of, between male and female, 7 n.

Sex-phobia, definition of, 202; destroys art of love, 235; not prevalent in Southern Europe, 240; determines Englishman's attitude to

children, 253, 254; evidences of, in Christianity, 287; leads to Puritanical restrictions, 301

Shaw, Bernard, eschews all sport, 327

Sheik Nefzaiu, on love, 235

Skulls, Sir A. Keith's comparison of ancient and modern, 198

Smoking causes diminution of sexual potency, 135

Socrates, consorted with hetairæ, 68, 89; de Quincey's opinion of, 90 n.

Sorcerers, their power in primitive societies, 55, 57

Soul, the, exaltation of, above the body a cause of degeneration, 272–9

Sparta, suffered from too narrow an idea of manliness, 71; the downfall of, coincided with female emancipation, 72

Specialization, its besotting effect, 328, 329

Spencer, Herbert, on man's exploitation of woman, 56; mistaken interpretation of his phrase "survival of the fittest," 79, 81; on woman as the "unselfish" principle in life, 129; on vaccination, 148 n.

Spinster, the enjoyment of the Roll of Honour by the bitter, 302

Sport, a cause of degeneracy in man, 271, 324–8

Stupidity, the only family heirloom to become more and more polished in modern times, 168

Suckling, of infants decreasing, 163, 164, 183

Thackeray realized that contempt of man begins at home, 119 n.

Thomas Aquinas, his view of matrimony, 293

Tolstoi, partially impotent, 131

Unselfishness, quite meaningless in connection with woman's sexual functions, 129

Urbanization, a cause of degeneracy, 169–84; bad moral effect of, 173, 174, 187 n.

Vaccination, a possible cause of degeneracy, 148 n.

Vaertings, the, the fallacies of their Dominant Sex exposed, 98–108

Values, transvaluation of, a pre-requisite of regeneration, 339

Voyeurism, normal in the male, 16

War, the Great, men's bravery in, not a refutation of the charge of degeneracy, 135; national physique did not improve between the Boer and, 148 n.; happiness of old people during, 302

Widows, large numbers remarry owing to Englishman's fear of sex, 238

Will, the best Englishmen not lacking in, 250; decline of, in periods of physical debility, 250

Wollstonecraft, Mary, her Vindication of the Rights of Women, 115

Woman's Movement, the, the success of, proves male degeneracy, 116, not led by the least desirable women, 117; not inspired by mere desire for the vote, 120; supported by maudlin men, 122, 123; won through anarchy and sentimentality, 124

Women, their revolt against modern men, xii; their revolt due to lack of confidence in men, xv; incomplete without motherhood, 20, 38; more infantile than men, 21, 22, 24–34; more precocious than men, 22; their lesser variational tendency, 24, 25, 27, 34; age of maturity in, 27 n., do not understand children, 28, heavy toll of reproduction on, 25–39; their longer sexual cycle, 35; loss of freedom owing to beloved parasite, 35; inferior wieldiness of their bodies, 35; earlier ageing of, 36; cannot understand men, 38; utterly from different men, 47; argue as if men's regression were their advance, 48, 113; quite inconspicuous in mental achievement, 50; not chosen for leadership on account

of inferior ability, 54–61, 113; only filled minor positions in religious systems, 58, 60; no such thing as subjection of, has ever existed, 63, 114; have always had as many opportunities as men for achievement, 64; never equalled men in the art of illumination, 65; or of music, 66 n.; their failure in achievement not due to unfavourable conditions, 67; their inferiority strongly asserted in ancient Greece, 68; their position in ancient Rome, 72–6; their disorderly behaviour in the French Revolution, 77; masculinity in, made recessive in virile cultures, 88; but asserted when men are degenerate, 89; their cruelty under the Roman Empire and in the French Revolution, a sign of male degeneracy, 93; regarded as inferior by the Indians, 92; sadism among North American Indian, 94, 95; sadism in, due to celibacy, 95; anxious to give men guilty consciences, 125; the absurdity of regarding, as the moralizing sex, 125, 127, 128, 137; more sensual and "immoral" than men, 129; the fallacy of regarding, as unselfish, 129; their degeneration as compared with that of men, 201; their advent into government will only increase the chaos, 225; their judgment determined by emotion, 225; the interest of married, in Causes due to sexual dissatisfaction, 235; despise men who lack mastery in sex, 242; because treated as "pals," 243; to find complete male environment to-day require several males, 243; power has passed into hands of, owing to insensate interpretation of "chivalry," 247; often desire violence from their mates, 248; moral indignation in, very suspicious, 249; the absurd myth of their moral superiority, 251; not so degenerate as men, 266; can do men's work to-day, 321, 322; tend to become more masculine in modern careers, 323; more versatile than men to-day, 329; necessity for bad taste in, 340; values concerning, must be altered, 341

Wordsworth, his monumental misunderstanding of childhood, 254

Xenophon, his description of the Greek wife, 68