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254 THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
with an introduction in which I voiced a great number of
disagreeable home-truths.
"Woman," I contended, "is not a slave, for she and
her children are supported by her husband’s work. She
is not oppressed, for nature has ordained that she should
live under the protection of the man while she fulfils her
mission in life as mother. Woman is not man’s intel-
lectual equal ; the man, on the other hand, cannot bear
children. She is not an essential factor in the great work
of civilisation ; this is man’s domain, for he is better fitted
to grapple with spiritual problems than she is. Evolution
teaches us that the greater the difference between the
sexes, the stronger and more fit will be the resulting
offspring. Consequently the aping of the masculine, the
equality of the sexes, means retrogression, and is utter
folly, the last dream of romantic and idealistic socialism.
" Woman, man’s necessary complement, the spiritual
creation of man, has no right to the privileges of her
husband, for she can only be called ’
the other half of
humanity ’
by virtue of her numbers, proportionally she
is merely the sixth part of a sixth. She should not, there-
fore, invade the labour market as long as it falls to the
lot of the man to provide for his wife and family. And
the fact should not be lost sight of that every time a
woman wrests an appointment from a man, there is one
more old maid or prostitute."
The fury of the feminists, and the formidable party
which they formed, may easily be imagined when one
realises that they demanded the confiscation of my book
and brought a lawsuit against me.
But despite their attempt to represent my attack as an
offence against religion (the folly of the unsexed actually
aspired to raise their cause to the dignity of a religion),
they were not clever enough to win their case.
Marie obstinately opposed my intention to go to Sweden
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