INDEX

Actors, the, in modern society, [214]
Adultery, committed by the artist when he marries, [89];
in case of positive woman due to long absence of husband, [189];
caused by vanity, [189] n., [219];
during war-time misunderstood by fools, [190], [191];
of the woman owing to her husband’s impotence, [194];
in positive woman due to childlessness, [202]
Affectation, a sign of misery in spinsters, [240]
Alcohol, a sublimator of sex, [248]
Alfred the Great, the masculinity of his mother, [158]
Anæmia, pernicious effects of, in the positive girl, [116], [117]
Anglo-Saxons, their lack of insight, [361-3]
Aristotle, his doctrine of catharsis, [247]
Art, only a weapon in the hands of positive women, [65], [66];
all forms of, man’s invention, [325];
why women turn to, [349]
Artist, the, often ruined by his success with women, [85];
commits adultery when he marries, [89]
Athletics, pernicious effect of, on the positive girl, [113-5]
Births, table of legitimate and illegitimate, [128] n.
Body, the, thrilled by sexual union and also by order, [58-60];
the joys of the healthy, never pall, [87];
care of the, in positive girls essential, [117];
the, ruined by Puritanism in both rich and poor, [118];
the joys of the, most important in life, [149]
Byron, unhappy married life of, [143];
the masculinity of his mother, [158];
on cant, [250] n.;
attitude of women towards his Don Juan, [279] n.;
his unfortunate relationship to his mother, [316];
on women and false sentiment, [319] n.
Calvin, hostile to life, [11];
altogether negative, [13] n.
Cant, see Introduction.
The inevitable ingredient in every movement in England, [250];
Byron on, [250] n.
Carlyle, unhappy married life of, [143]
Catholic Church, honest and practical regarding superfluous women, [32];
its wise organization of spinsters, [274], [275].
Celibacy, in the Catholic Church enforced by poverty, [329] n.
Change, a necessary tonic in life, [140]
Charles I ruled by social instinct, [45]
Childlessness, as an end destructive of conjugal happiness, [204];
its bad effect on the husband, [205], [206];
a cause of divorce, [207-10];
longer endured by the negative than the positive woman, [215]
Children, positive if healthy, [13], [14];
healthy, the best pattern for the positive man, [15];
the seriousness of positive, [15], [16];
positive to everything, [18-20];
their restless energy, [37];
their misrepresentation of their restlessness, [38];
their unconscious motives, [39];
the object of woman’s eternal gratitude, [42];
their healthy contempt of sickness and deformity, [101];
their taste should be guided along healthy lines, [101], [102] n.;
the regulation of the procreation of, the object of marriage, [138];
a consolation to the wife for decline in her husband’s affection, [148], [149];
a separating force in marriage, [149];
no bodily consolation to the father, [149];
during regular bearing of, a woman rarely tempted to leave her husband, [179];
years do not necessarily increase love between the parents, [180-4];
frequently a source of friction, [183];
much more important to the wife than the husband is, [185];
not consciously desired by the dissatisfied wife, [201] n.;
necessary to introduce variety into the home, [205];
the pernicious relations of spinsters with, [241]
Christianity, logically condemns sex and advocates eternal life, [4], [5];
responsible for decadent doctrines, [102] n.;
teaches nonsensical doctrine of “union of souls” in marriage, [137];
and thus responsible for degeneration, [139];
responsible for degeneration, [176] n.;
a sublimator of sex, [248];
attractive to the negative spinster, [258]
Cleanmindedness, destroyed by sexual abstinence, [173];
only obtained by healthy gratification, [174]
Cleverness, exaggerated value attached to, nowadays often leads to unhappy marriages, [85]
Cohabitation, pernicious during gestation and suckling, [163-5]
Colbert, ruled by social instinct, [45]
Companionship, impossible in marriage, [147]
Concubine, necessary for positive young man, [172]
Conscience, a guilty, merely costive, [18];
woman tries to rule man by giving him a guilty, [197] n.
Constipation, bad effects of, [115]
Contempt, inevitable in modern love-matches, [143], [144]
Contraceptives, unknown to the body, [75];
because they cause sterility lead to adultery in the woman, [195], [196];
deleterious effect of, [203], [205] n., [211]
Co-respondent, the, a vain fool, [191], [193];
the, always vain, [200];
his vanity, [211];
far too lightly treated in England, [223]
Courtship, should be an adventure, but to-day is not, [142]
Criminals, the vanity of, [226] n.
Davison, Emily, her marvellous rush at the Derby, [312]
Death, the necessary counterpart of sex, [3]
Degeneration, of modern man, [161] (see also Introduction);
the object of society to-day, [166]
Democracy, has been proved fatal to civilization, [362]
De Quincey, on the evil effects of repression, [246];
his unfortunate relationship to his mother, [316]
Desire, killed by gratification, [141]
Dickens, Charles, unhappy married life of, [143]
Discipline, of healthy children most difficult, [20];
the object of, [21]
Disraeli, ruled by social instinct, [45];
an able man capable of fulsome flattery, [338]
Divorce, rarer where there are many children, [180];
high figures for, in cases of small families, [202];
majority of petitions made by men, [207];
some statistics of, [208];
childlessness a cause of, [207-10];
chart of, according to professions, [211];
higher percentage of, in professional classes, [212];
of the negative couple, [216]
Domestic work, value of, [266]
Don Juan, the cold, [222]
Dostoiewsky, on the vanity of criminals, [226] n.
Education, in England produces womanly men, [175]
Elizabeth, Queen, her vanity, [337], [338];
her success as a ruler largely due to her unlimited capacity for lies, [315] n.
Emma of Normandy, a remarkable woman, [292], [293]
England, full of negative and asexual women, [53];
lacking in positive men, [97];
disregard of the body in, [112], [113];
men made negative in, for 270 years, [119];
her “trousered women,” [156] n., [162];
large proportion of negative women in, account for adultery out of vanity, [189] n.;
public opinion in, chiefly ruled by Puritanical old ladies, [190];
co-respondents treated too lightly in, [223];
marriage in, often peaceful through negativism, [227];
women less positive in, [247];
cheerful spinsters in, a bad sign, [248];
prostitution most degraded in, [251];
hypocritical attitude towards prostitution in, [252];
more misery and disorder in, connected with sex, than anywhere else, [260];
full of homes owned by wealthy spinsters, [269], [271];
cooking in, atrocious, [299];
and clothing inferior, [300]
Englishman, less positive than the Frenchman, [92];
has less social instinct than the Frenchman, [92], [94];
increasingly negative, [94];
his negativism, [119];
his erroneous views of woman’s virtues, [308]
Eternal Life, doctrine of, hostile to sex, [4]
Exuberance, high sexual, often accompanies superior spiritual gifts, [84];
lack of, makes both men and women unhappy, [96];
sexual, not required in modern industrial slaves, [96]
Family, the, created by monogamy, [135]
Father, the reasons of his attachment to the family, [186], [187]
Female, the positiveness of the, almost unbreakable, [22]
Femaleness, in the male due to snubbed sex and broken spirit, [156]
Feminism, a phenomenon of male degeneration, [35] (see also Introduction);
the ruling creed of English journalists and writers, [272] n.;
largely the creation of wealthy spinsters, [273];
the creed of the age, [278];
to be condemned even from the hedonistic point of view, [335];
rout of, essential, [345];
stupid and wrong, [362];
bound to be given a trial in Anglo-Saxon countries, [363], [364];
likely to grow stronger, [365]
Flapper, the courage of the healthy English, [105];
helped by her vanity, [106]
Food, joking over, a sign of negativeness, [15]
Football, bad for men, barbarous for women, [114]
France, old maids in, always unbearable, [112]
Francis, St., of Assisi, ruled by social instinct, [45]
Friendship, requires change and separation, [140];
affords recreation, [146], [147]
Gibbon, on the importance of women among the Teutons, [280], [291]
Girl, the first meeting of the positive, with a possible mate, [80], [81];
her disappointment to-day, [81];
foolish prejudices that mislead the positive, in the choice of a mate, [82];
the French, always watched, [92];
the English, less positive than the French, [93], [94];
the positive, often disappointed in marriage, [95];
tragic plight of the positive English, [97];
the conflict between her body and modern ideals in the positive English, [104];
her self-contempt and pessimism, [105];
only the positive, makes the hateful spinster, [111];
the negative, makes a cheerful old maid, [112];
the positive, often ruined by athletics, [113];
care of her body imperative, [117];
the positive, converted to negativism by her husband, [118], [121], [122]
Good, definition of, in a positive sense, [10-12], [53]
Greece, schools for initiation into sex in, [253]
Greeks, schools for initiation into sex among the, [172]
Health, means pleasurable functioning, [151]
Hermaphroditism in both sexes, [155]
Hindus, their healthy teaching about marriage, [102] n.;
their wise regulations for wives separated from their husbands, [189] n.;
their provision for women childless through husband’s fault, [194] n.;
destined their daughters for marriage only, [276] n.;
description of woman in their sacred book, [280], [281];
on woman’s disregard for beauty, [325];
the poorest caste the most respected among the, [330];
their wisdom in controlling their women, [325], [336], [344]
Homosexuality, admired by Weininger but condemned by the author, [53]
Humanitarianism, an outlet for the spinster’s love of power, [242];
merely inverted sadism, [243];
the harm done by, [244]
Husband, the saviour of his wife’s body, [107]
Huxley, on woman’s virtue, [308]
Ill-health, in girls due to waiting for marriage, [110]
Impudence, the, of those who imagine they are capable of feeling and inspiring undying love, [145]
Indian women, cynical treatment of by British, [299] n.
Infertility, danger of, to married life, [195-203]
Instinct, defined, [43], [44];
the three fundamental instincts, [44];
the social, rules men like Napoleon, Charles I, Nietzsche, etc., [45];
the self-preservative, rules cowards, anarchists, unscrupulous plutocrats, etc., [45];
the reproductive, rules Woman, [46];
the self-preservative, suspended during courtship, [89-91];
the social, keeps reproductive, in control, [91]
Instincts, sound, necessary for positiveness, [14]
Intuition, in women and great men, [356]
Joan of Arc, her mysterious powers, [358]
John the Baptist, ruled by social instinct, [45]
Judges, effeminacy of present-day, [354]
Lady, no such thing has ever existed, [331]
Laughter, not a characteristic of positiveness, [16];
shrill, the social noise of Puritan countries, [17];
the only positive form of, defined, [17]
Leucorrhœa, bad effects of, [115-7]
Life in Nature quite tasteless, [306]
Love, illicit, some penalties of, [128];
defined, [128];
society’s lie regarding permanence of, [129];
permanent only in very rare cases, [130];
may be an excuse for an illicit union but not for marriage, [139];
only lasts if it is unconsummated, [141] n.;
the delusion of lasting, [142];
not necessarily deeper between parents of a large family, [180], [181]
Lunacy, in females chiefly among the unmarried, [238] n.
Luvv, the right spelling for the maudlin modern idea of the nobler sentiment, [143];
the corrosive of monogamic marriages, [143];
as described in modern novels, [214]
Lying, “physiological” in women, [281];
in women vital and essential to life, [302-5]
Lytton, Lord, his unhealthy influence, [101] n.
Male, the, naturally prehensile, [120]
Man, cannot mould woman, [27];
but can make her miserable and ill, [29];
modern, less positive than woman, [23];
a means unconsciously exploited by woman, [42];
not generally ruled by reproductive instinct, [46];
an amputation from Life, [55];
reproductive instinct not universally predominant in, [55];
social instinct most important in his life, [56];
woman a temptation to the positive, [67], [69];
practically asexual after performing the sexual act, [68];
guided by social instinct to support woman and child, [68];
the modern public school athlete a torture machine for women, [82], [83];
guided by values in his choice of a mate, [98], [99];
the positive, ruined by Puritanism, [152], [153];
the positive, misled by Puritan values, [100], [102];
duty of the positive, to give woman a clean conscience in regard to sex, [107];
degeneration of, [161] (see also Introduction);
the rarity of the male, in England, [161], [162];
school of initiation into sex for, [172];
effect of childlessness upon the positive, [205], [206];
games, hobbies, and religion the substitutes for sexual variety for the positive, [207];
the negative, guided by vanity, [222];
the proud, disliked to-day, [224] n., [225];
the modern, very much below even a modest idea of what man should be, [230];
ruined and devitalized by commercialism, [265] (see also Introduction);
the creative intelligence even in woman’s sphere, [299];
the Promethean type of, and the misery he creates, [333], [334];
geniuses and unmitigated fools produced by the extreme variability of, [350], [351];
his psychic powers, [360];
his great variability, [367];
most in need of transformation, [368]
Manliness, absurd modern conception of, [82]
Manu, Laws of, see Hindus
Marital fidelity, due to ill-health, [151]
Mark Anthony, ruled by reproductive instinct, [45], [55]
Marriage, erroneous to regard it is a sacrifice for women, [79];
often a disappointment to the positive girl, [90];
a social contrivance, [125];
not a natural state, [126];
hedonistic view of, reprehensible, [131], [132], [133], [134], [137];
its utility, [133];
in a chaotic condition in Europe owing to Christianity, [139];
unhappy in most cases of men of genius, [143];
modern, now on the rocks, [168];
should be utilitarian, [169];
points to be considered in, [169];
right teaching regarding, [170];
reform of, essential, [176];
the fifth to the tenth the most critical years for, [210], [211];
entered upon from vanity, [218];
in England often peaceful owing to negativism, [227];
should be the only calling for women, [276]
Maternity, the pains of, exaggerated by modern women to give man a guilty conscience, [77];
only intolerably painful in disease, [78];
only “unselfish” in the case of a sick or badly formed woman, [78];
increasing number of women suffering from, to-day, [79];
only self-sacrifice in the case of sick females, [148] n.
Memory, ancestral, in women, [234]
Meredith, George, on wealthy spinsters, [270]
Mill, John Stuart, a henpecked philosopher, [282];
inspired by his wife, [282];
his foolish remarks on the nature of woman, [283-7];
his false assumptions regarding woman, [289];
a sentimental liar concerning women, [296];
a pernicious liar, [345]
Modesty defined, [224]
Monogamy, natural to some animals but unnatural for man, [126];
advantages of, chiefly social, [134-7];
regulates the procreation of children, [138];
disadvantages of, [139-67];
precludes all change and respite, [140], [141];
more satisfactory to the female than to the male, [148], [149], [150];
may inflict sexual abstinence on the male during pregnancy of the wife, [165];
productive of ill-health and degeneracy, [165]
Mortal Life, desirable together with sex and other means thereto, [6-8], [12], [13];
includes pain, [10];
intellectual justification required for constant attacks upon, [12];
to be called Life, as being the only kind of Life we know, [13]
Mother, the, loved by the true artist, [71];
the positive, consciously desires her full sexual cycle, [77];
importance of the early training of the child by the, [314], [315]
Mother’s milk, abominable substitutes for, [164]
Napoleon, ruled by social instinct, [45];
his dictum that women have no rank, [331], [332];
and Madame de Staël, [337]
Negativeness, defined, [13];
noisy laughter a sign of, [17];
the attitude of, towards childhood, [22];
in woman, the outcome of sickness or degeneracy, [35]
Negativism, responsible for chastity in England, [96];
excellent from the Puritan point of view, [96];
causes of deterioration to, [108-11];
physical disorders due to, [112];
positive girl converted to, by her husband, [118];
in women through lack of mastery in men, [121], [122];
incapable of lasting emotion, [130];
impossible to calculate the vagaries of, [213];
due to an atonic condition of the body, [215];
confounds motherhood with martyrdom, [215];
never guided by passion, [227]
Nietzsche, ruled by social instinct, [45]
Old Maid, the, less enthusiastic about “Woman’s Cause” than the negative wife, [218] (see also Spinster)
Old Testament, honest in its attitude to disease, [101]
Order, means greater happiness and security, [60]
Orgasm, the, alone unsatisfying for the woman, [195]
Pain, to be accepted because necessary to Mortal Life, [13];
the depth and distinction gained by, [107]
Parents, should destine their daughters for marriage only, [276]
Passion, does not grin and grimace, [221];
never directs negative people, [227];
euphemisms for lack of, [228]
Paul, St., hostile to Life, [9], [11];
altogether negative, [13];
immoral because hostile to Life, [62]
Penelope, her undesirability probably the cause of her fidelity, [190] n.;
admiration of, [192] n.
Pessimism, the, of the positive English girl, [105]
Philosopher, the positive, deeply interested in the child, [14], [15]
Positiveness, defined, [13];
the seriousness of, [16], [17];
forgets all that mars interest in life, [17];
rarely has a guilty conscience, [18];
has no fear of pain, [18]
Prayer Book, its wisdom in the Marriage Service, [107];
its teaching regarding marriage, [138]
Prehension, a male quality, [120];
modern Englishman lacking in, [121]
Prig, woman’s epithet for the man of insight, [217]
Procreation, improper and impious for cold-blooded Puritans, [34]
Professional classes, reasons for high percentage of divorce in the, [212]
Prostitute, the, loved by degenerates and anarchists, [71];
the only kind of woman to whom man is everything, [73];
driven by unfortunate circumstances to misunderstand her true needs, [76];
the sadness of her lot not due to its moral turpitude, [254];
her childless fate her severest penalty, [255] n.;
not so by nature but made so by circumstances, [255]
Prostitution, an evil in Western civilization because it is made so, [249];
sexual, not necessarily the worst, [250];
most degraded in England, [251];
hypocritical attitude towards, in England, [252];
Lecky on, [252] n.;
as a school of initiation into sex, [253];
necessity of placing, on a sound and more humane basis, [254]
Puritan, the, his implacable loathing of sex, [5];
and of all bodily matters, [8];
immoral because hostile to Life, [62];
by associating sexual pleasure with marriage only, responsible for mésalliances, [134];
his outcry against wise marital infidelity, [166]
Puritanism, has reduced men to nincompoops, [33];
claims of, now heard because of increase in repulsive and botched people, [35];
vitality impaired by depressing foods and drinks introduced by, [53];
affected men more deeply than women in England, [94], [95];
ruins the sexual life of the positive couple, [153];
has destroyed the male man in England, [161]
Purity, true and false, [100];
the only true, is the outcome of fire, [100]
Religion, as a compensation for sex, [245]
Repression, De Quincey and Aristotle on bad effects of, [246], [247]
Reynolds, Joshua, his bodiless child angels the ideal of the negative mind, [22]
Sadism, in little girls, spinsters, and old women, [156];
unconscious, in women, [157];
humanitarianism an inverted form of, [243]
Savouriness, a pre-requisite in marriage, [87]
Scandal, loved by all decent, humane people, [311]
Schopenhauer, hostile to Life, [11];
the masculinity of his mother, [158];
on woman as the voice of the species, [178];
his conclusions vitiated by his failure to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy, [213] n.;
on woman’s cunning, [304] n.;
his unfortunate relationship to his mother, [316];
on harm done to modern society by woman’s influence, [330] n.
Seducer, the, who gives a girl a child more merciful than he who does not, [254] n.
Self-control, that, which arises from strength, [70];
the so-called, of the negative young man, [91];
not responsible for the chastity of English courting couples, [95];
a euphemistic name for lack of virility, [167];
in sex a counsel for wax figures, [175];
the vain boast of negative spinster, [257]
Selfish, a meaningless term, [197]
Sensuality, necessary in woman, [340-4];
but should be controlled, [343]
Sex, the necessary counterpart of death, [3];
incompatible with Eternal Life, [4], [5];
necessary for Mortal Life, [6], [8]
Sexual act, man’s attitude towards the, [70], [71];
alone insufficient for woman, [76]
Social instinct, creates society, [62];
positiveness towards, in woman denotes decline of woman, [66];
leads man to support woman and children, [68];
keeps sexual instinct in control, [70]
Socrates, unhappy married life of, [143]
Soul, the pernicious doctrine of the pure, [101], [102] n.
Spencer, Herbert, right regarding children of large families, [21];
ruled by social instinct, [45]
Spinster, the hateful, only made by the snubbed positive girl, [111];
the cheerful, made by the negative girl, [112];
her advice about girls to be suspected, [114] n.;
her outcry against wise marital infidelity, [166];
the, always abnormal, [229-31];
exercises an abnormal influence on society, [231-3];
her “useful work” should be suspected, [232], [233];
the positive and negative defined, [234], [235];
the positive, a great conscious sufferer, [235-7];
profound physiological disappointment of the Positive, [238];
tendency to suicide in the very positive, [238], [239];
neuropathic symptoms in the, [239], [240];
affectation a sign of misery in the, [240];
the various ways in which she seeks compensation, [240], [246];
reason of her frequent choice of the teaching profession, [241];
her jealousy of young girls, [246];
the embittered, more common on the Continent than in England, [247];
the negative, not a great conscious sufferer, [255];
misinterpretations of the lack of sexual vigour in the negative, [256], [257];
the danger of these misinterpretations, [257];
will gravitate almost automatically to Christianity, [258];
her love of the weak and the poor, [260];
her hatred of men, [261];
the negative becoming more prevalent in England, [262];
increases economic difficulties, [263];
the wealthy, inevitably a burden on society, [268-71];
her good works a means of making herself important, [270];
George Meredith on, [270];
contaminates English opinion, [272];
largely responsible for Feminism, [273];
an abnormal influence, [273], [274];
wisely provided for by the Catholic Church, [274], [275];
the “annuitant” always a bane, [278];
benevolent sequestration of the, desirable, [278]
Spirit, the things of the, pall quickly, [86]
Stepmother, the bad, a good mother, [312], [313] n.
Strafford, ruled by social instinct, [45]
Sublimation of sex possible but undesirable outside a Church, [174];
of sex may be accomplished through Christianity or alcohol, [248]
Suicide, through disappointed love more common among women than men, [42] n.;
tendency to, in the positive spinster, [238], [239]
Tacitus, emphasizes the important rôle of women among the Teutons, [290]
Teacher, pernicious influence of the unmarried, [241]
Teutons, importance of women among the, [290]
Unconscious motives, actuating action, [40], [41];
misunderstood by women, [43], [47-9]
Unhealthiness, defined, [50];
the unhealthy woman approaches maleness, [51];
makes woman an infidel towards Life, [52]
Unselfish, a meaningless term, [197]
Unselfishness, the, of motherhood one of the greatest lies produced by Western civilization, [79]
Values, guide a man in his choice of a mate, [98], [99]
Vanity, helps to save the young girl’s body, [106];
makes the sick girl desire marriage, [111];
as cause of adultery, [189] n.;
of the old man, [193] n.;
mistaken for passion, [214];
leading to imitation of passion, [218];
leading to marriage, [218];
leading to adultery, [219];
courtship the time of the strongest appeal to, [220];
guiding the negative woman, [218-22];
guiding the negative man, [222], [223];
always found in conjunction with modesty, [223-5];
the tragedy of mortified, [226];
of criminals, [226] n.;
judgments based on, unreliable, [226] n.
Virgin, the, does not sincerely crave for children, [75];
the “pure” defined, [258];
as the voice of oracles, [357]
Virginity, idiotic demand for, in men before marriage, [155]
Vulgarity, vital, of women, [326-30]
War, the Great, supported by negative spinsters and old men from secret sex motives, [261] (see also Introduction)
Warts, children positive even to, [19]
Wealth, desired by positive woman, [84]
Weininger, his logical hostility to Sex and Mortal Life, [8], [9], [11];
his misunderstanding of the unconscious in woman, [47];
makes no classification into healthy and unhealthy, [50];
admired sterility, [52];
admired homosexuality, [52] n.;
his contradictory statements about the prostitute, [71] n.;
his view of “maleness” in women, [155];
this view proved false, [161] n.;
his conclusions vitiated by his failing to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy, [213] n.;
agrees that there has been no subjection of women, [297];
on woman’s natural lawlessness, [301] n.;
his pessimism, [302] n.;
on great men preferring the prostitute, [327]
Will defined, [44]
Woman, more positive than modern man, [23];
wretched and desperate to-day, [25];
an unchanging individuality not fashioned by man, [25], [27];
her primary adaptation to man and the child, [28];
is Life’s uninterrupted stream, [29];
to-day deprived of her primary adaptations, [30];
rightly dissatisfied with modern man, [30];
modern attitude towards superfluous women insulting and dishonest, [31], [32];
the Catholic Church more honest towards them, [32];
as Life’s custodian inevitably miserable and in pain to-day, [35];
not equipped for ordering Life, [35];
her cry of warning must be respected but her remedies rejected, [36];
her action guided by her bodily structure, [41];
is above all wedded to Life and sins in its service, [42];
unconsciously exploits man, [42];
does not know her unconscious motives, [43];
ruled by reproductive instinct, [46];
misinterprets promptings of reproductive instinct, [47];
unconscious of her motives, [49], [50];
approaches maleness when unhealthy, [51];
an infidel towards Life when unhealthy, [52];
for woman positiveness to sex and Life is the same thing, [55];
the asexual, hostile to Life, [56];
will follow man if he understands her, [56];
positive to order, [61];
feels no confidence in men lacking in social instinct, [62];
the positive, all sex, [63];
the positive, timid in the presence of men, [64];
the positive, does not continue to practise the arts when once they have helped her to secure a man, [65];
modern, losing faith in man because of the decline of his social instinct, [67];
attitude of the positive, to sexual act, [72];
sexual union alone insufficient for, [72], [76];
her love for man a romantic ideal, [73];
the positive, unconscious of what is necessary for full sexual experience, [73], [74];
positive in the first place to man, [74];
the positive, unconsciously desires full sexual cycle, [75], [76];
the modern European, exaggerates pains of maternity in order to give man a guilty conscience, [77];
increasing number of women suffering from maternity to-day, [79];
the positive, desires wealth for the protection of her offspring, [84];
the positive, not impressed by spiritual gifts alone, [88];
guided by Life in choice of a mate, [98], [99];
the negative, content without children, [149] n.;
sadism in, [156], [157];
the “male” desirable, [157-9] (see also Introduction);
cases in which the “male” is undesirable, [159];
maleness in, only made recessive by superior maleness in the man, [160], [161], [174], [175];
misery of the “male” woman in England, [162];
her demand for the sexual cycle the voice of the Will of the Species, [178];
rarely tempted to leave her husband if regularly bearing children, [179];
the positive, grows more indifferent to her husband as the family grows, [181], [182];
the positive, unconsciously desires to employ her reproductive machinery, [188];
the positive, commits adultery owing to long absence of husband, [189];
the best, faithful to Life before all else, [192];
her adultery owing to husband’s impotence, [194];
the childless, often takes up a Cause, [196] n.;
tries to rule man by giving him a guilty conscience, [197] n.;
more likely to go wrong in marriage through childlessness than the man, [205];
the negative, endures childlessness much longer than the positive, [215];
the negative, cultivates a taste for soulful literature and Christianity, [216];
calls man who sees through her “prig,” [217];
difference between positive and negative, in an illicit love affair, [220], [221];
the negative, notoriously grimacière, [221];
the surplus, and work outside the home, [267];
being besotted by entering the work market, [267], [268];
the number of surplus women in England, [274];
should be destined for marriage alone by her parents, [276];
suggested ways of dealing with the problem of the surplus, [276], [277];
connected with evil from time immemorial, [280];
lying “physiological” in, [281];
her bondage an illusion, [289], [290], [296];
her importance among the Teutons, Celts, and Early English, [290-2];
in the Middle Ages, [293], [294];
in the 16th and 17th centuries, [294-6];
has consistently shown crass stupidity in her own peculiar domain, [298], [299];
Life’s custodian, [300];
her primum mobile completely a-moral, [301];
her lies vital, [302], [305];
her lying necessarily extended to non-vital matters, [302-4];
her five cardinal virtues, [307];
modern Englishman’s erroneous view of her virtues, [308];
her derivative virtues, [309-19];
her laudable love of scandal, [311];
her six cardinal vices, [318-43];
her tact, [320];
her lack of taste of vital necessity, [326-32];
her incapacity to appreciate great men, [327-9];
cannot forgive material failure in her men, [331];
has no rank, [331], [332];
her love of petty power, [332-6];
must be controlled, [335], [336];
her vanity, [336-40];
danger of her vanity, [338];
her vanity vital, [339], [340];
vanity overcome by passion in the positive, [340];
her sensuality, [340-4];
her sensuality vital, [341], [342];
the custodian of Life, [346];
negligible in Art, Philosophy and Science, [346], [347];
reasons for her turning to Science or Art, [349];
cannot be changed without danger to the species, [350], [351];
her thinking largely feeling, [351], [352];
incompetent to act in any judicial capacity, [353], [355];
her intuition, [355], [356];
her psychic powers, [358], [359]
Womanhood, ideal of “true womanhood” cruel nonsense, [26], [27]
Women workers, their number, [263] n.
Working-man, the, more gifted at love-making than his social superior, [154] n.

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