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Woman and Labour-Part20_Oliver Schreiner(1855-1920)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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would rest on her; and yet more by the competition of the more developed

forms. She would practically become non-existent.)



It is exactly by these two classes of persons that the objection is raised

that the entrance of woman into the new fields of labour and her increased



freedom and intelligence will dislocate the relations of the sexes; and,

while from the purely personal standpoint, they are undoubtedly right,



viewing human society as a whole they are fundamentally wrong. The loss of

a small and unhealthy section will be the gain of human society as a whole.



In the male voluptuary of feebleintellect and unattractive individuality,

who depends for the gratification of his sexualinstincts, not on his power



of winning and retaining the personal affection" target="_blank" title="n.友爱；慈爱">affection and admiration of woman,

but on her purchaseable condition, either in the blatantly barbarous field



of sex traffic that lies beyond the pale of legal marriage, or the not less

barbarous though more veiled traffic within that pale, the entrance of



woman into the new fields of labour, with an increased intellectual" target="_blank" title="n.知识分子">intellectualculture

and economic freedom, means little less than social extinction. But, to



those males who, even at the present day, constitute the majority in our

societies, and who desire the affection" target="_blank" title="n.友爱；慈爱">affection and fellowship of woman rather than



a mere material possession; for the male who has the attributes and gifts

of mind or body, which, apart from any weight of material advantage, would



fit him to hold the affection" target="_blank" title="n.友爱；慈爱">affection of woman, however great her freedom of

choice, the gain will be correspondingly great. Given a society in which



the majority of women should be so far self-supporting, that, having their

free share open to them in the modern fields of labour, and reaping the



full economic rewards of their labour, marriage or some form of sexual sale

was no more a matter of necessity to them; so far from this condition



causing a diminution in the number of permanent sex unions, one of the

heaviest bars to them would be removed. It is universally allowed that one



of the disease spots in our modern social condition is the increasing

difficulty which bars conscientious men from entering on marriage and



rearing families, if limited means would in the case of their death or

disablement throw the woman and their common offspring comparatively



helpless into the fiercestream of our modern economic life. If the woman

could justifiably be looked to, in case of the man's disablement or death,



to take his place as an earner, thousands of valuable marriages which

cannot now be contracted could be entered on; and the serious social evil,



which arises from the fact that while the self-indulgent and selfish freely

marry and produce large families, the restrained and conscientious are



often unable to do so, would be removed. For the first time in the history

of the modern world, prostitution, using that term in its broadest sense to



cover all forced sexual relationships based, not on the spontaneous

affection" target="_blank" title="n.友爱；慈爱">affection of the woman for the man, but on the necessitous acceptance by



woman of material good in exchange for the exercise of her sexual

functions, would be extinct; and the relation between men and women become



a co-partnership between freemen.

So far from the economic freedom and social independence of the woman



exterminating sexual love between man and woman, it would for the first

time fully enfranchise it. The element of physical force and capture which



dominated the most primitive sex relations, the more degrading element of

seduction and purchase by means of wealth or material good offered to woman



in our modern societies, would then give place to the untrammelled action

of attraction and affection" target="_blank" title="n.友爱；慈爱">affection alone between the sexes, and sexual love, after



its long pilgrimage in the deserts, would be enabled to return at last, a

king crowned.



But, apart from the two classes of persons whose objection to the entrance

of woman to new fields of labour is based more or less instinctively on the



fear of personal loss, there is undoubtedly a small, if a very small,

number of sincere persons whose fear as to severance between the sexes to



result from woman's entrance into the new field, is based upon a more




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