1.—“_Nor blankly epicene_ ...”
“Bring up a boy and girl side by side, and educate them both for the
same profession under the same masters, and a novelist who depicts
character could yet weave a story out of the mental and emotional
differences between them, which will cause them to look at life from
totally opposite points of view.”—Mabel Collins (“On Woman’s Relation to
the State”).
2.-“... _sequence of that day_.”
“We have seen that a deep difference in constitution expresses itself in
the distinctions between male and female, whether these be physical or
mental. The differences may be exaggerated or lessened, but to
obliterate them it would be necessary to have all the evolution over
again on a new basis. What was decided among the Prehistoric Protozoa
cannot be annulled by Act of Parliament.”—Geddes and Thomson (“Evolution
of Sex,” p. 267).
3, 4.—“... _not ... by aping falser sex shall truer grow_.”
“While man and woman still are incomplete
I prize that soul where man and woman meet,
Which types all Nature’s male and female plan,
But, friend, man-woman is not woman-man.”
—Tennyson (“On One who Affected an Effeminate Manner”).