ABSTRACT
The revolution brought about by the emancipation of women has, like all revolutions, created derangements in a hitherto orderly world. Women were the most fervent upholders of the patriarchal principles. They were duly pure, exquisitely shockable, conscientiously tender and submissive, religiously dutiful, angelically patient, and everything went merrily as a marriage bell. The modern intelligent woman is learned in psychology, sociology, anthropology. But all that learning of the modern intelligent woman is inadequate if her biology is shaky. The bearing of biological facts on the views of modern emancipated woman is not to seduce her into adopting the morals of tabby-cats, but to throw light upon the assumption that marriage is natural. Patriarchal marriage is a masculine institution, and, in its sexual aspect, which is incidentally associated with its fundamental economic aspect, it is in accordance with masculine, not with feminine, sexual instincts.
