The herald., 1896-08-30

porter and defender on the outside. Sex
specialization 10 or has been clearly
useful and remains absolutely essential
from scientific point of view.
OF the future we have two outlooks.
First-No further progress of man
kind in body or intellect. If this be so
the world is hopeless and might as well
follow Tolstoi or Buddha into Nirvana
and an annihilation of humanity. The
world itself Is changing and must come
to a condition impossible for any life
as at present constituted. Even with
such view there is no scientific reason
for turning women out of the reproduce
tive line and into governmental duties.
The scientific review of this case is that
high forms of man necessitate the high
specialization of sex. This Is necessary
to provide for reproduction and in re-
production to secure provision and pro-
lection to mother and children for the
most vital period of the woman's life.
Wives in a vigorous population must
have six children to secure growth and
counteract the chances of early death,
slerlity, etcs Six children wen cared Tor
will occupy the vital years of the aver
age woman; the nature of the care is
constant and the inner home care is
requisite to a successful and high type
of humanity.
Second - II we take the more
reasonable and hopeful view that
we can as fathers and mothers march
in our children's children into better,
a higher and perhaps a perfect race,
what must we confront on this sexual
question. AS sensible people we must
expect that the evolution will follow the
same lines that it has followed. This
must be with each, race Improvement,
an increased complexity Of organism
and an increased period of helplessness
in the young This must do as it has
done, increase the specialization of sex
to meet and provide for the mother and
young. There is no possibility of
scientific conception of an improved
race that can diminish sex specializa-
tion. 1t already exists from skin to
bone and from head to foot. Sex differ
ences must be expected to increase as
humanity improves, not diminish.
Science then must be trampled under
foot by the sex equalizer, and, like re-
ligion, be cast away. The suffragist is
only left the social status for support
Society is organized upon written laws
and upon fashions and customs. In the
least organized societies we find the
least sexual difference in dress, occu-
patton and physique. Timid and de-
graded savages, like the Indian wood
veddah, the Andaman islander, the
Todo and the Nair have, the least diff
ference in the sexes either in their duties,
dress or physique. Marriage in some
tribes is little different from the tenn
pcrary pairing of animals and in other
tribes it is group marriage of several
men and several women living promis-
cuously together. In Thibet this form
takes on the exclusiveness of one wife
to several brothers. or a limited polyan-
dry. All such societies arc off in iso-
lated corners and in arid. inhospita-
BILE regions, enforcing a low standard
of life.
They live by the suffrage of hu-
manity that as yet does not care to dis
possess these timid remnants of a low
condition once general. All societies
from this low type, or perhaps from
the animal, follow certain lines in their
growth. Law, custom and fashion all
follow the line already sketched of life
evolution.
All human regulations by great lead
'ers, as of Confucius or Moses, Numa
or Brahma, as also all the insensible
and instructive drift of humanity, has
been to increase the specialization of
sex. This social evolution corresponds
with the physical evolution. 1t has
gone on at different epochs. in different
races and upon all the continents The
evolution of Mexican Aztec sex relation
went on Independently of that of Rome,
Chinese custom regulating sex in soci-
ETY. went on Independently of that of the
Anglo-Saxon. Hebrew sex rules grew
Independently of those of Greece. Sex
specialization is greatest in the most
powerful races, least in the weakest.
In each society it is strongest in the
highest part and least in the lowest
strata.
1t seems reasonable to say that a So
clal sex differentiation in the line of the
physical or animal sex specialzat ton
that has been evolved is an essential to
strong society. We can say this with
all the more certainty because the his
tory OF man records no exception. There
never has been a race with a recorded
history that did not have sex specializa-
ton by law and custom. Lack of sex
specialization is always accompanied
by weak family organization and a
weak reproductive power. No race or
nation can become or remain great with
weak reproductive power. Besides
these features of social evolution there
is another at once interesting and con-
hrmatory. In all the past historical
civilizations great power was followed
by great wealth. With wealth and leis-
ure come skepticism and unbelief in
religion. This resulted in the substitu-
ton of a material for soul standard.
In all these great and dead civilizations
marriage, from being general. early and
strong, became later and less FREQUENT
and the tie weaker. Children were
avoided and prevented, and sexual as
similation of social function, as in
Egypt. Greece and Rome, was accompa-
MED by progressive race sterilization.
such as is now appearing in France and
America. The end was the extermina-
tion of the strong race, the substitution
or heterogeneous immigrants for the
competent race that had made the civ
ilization and the death of the civiliza-
ton.
Thus the dominant races have disap-
peared by determination, when their So
cial laws and customs failed to enforce
the natural sex specialization necessary
to secure reproduction. To continue a
civilization the developed race capable
to continue it must maintain its repro
ductive power. The writings. savings
or doings of Americans, however impor-
tant. cannot compensate for the exter-
mination of the Americans. If the writ
ing is at the expense of the child, the
writing must be sacrificed for the child.
The child we must have. Our civiliza-
tion cannot go on without the developed
American. We cannot import Australian
bushmen or any inferior race and con-
tinue our civilization, from which we
exclude ourselves by reproductive de-
cay and progressive sterilization. The
destruction of sex specialization means
that women are to do as men and enter
the outer fight to compete with men on
an even footing. With these ambitions
women will and do avoid child bearing.
In law, or medicine, or engineering
child-bearing Is a handicap which sue
cess will demand must be sacrificed by
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