The philosophy of history proves to the earnest seeker after truth that the door of the future is not wholly closed.
Abipones, their customs, 148; independence of women among, 186
Adoption, among early races, 144, 145, 324; symbol of, 146, 147
Altruism, its development in the female, 17, 67, 86; its development in society, 124, 140
Arabia, organization of society in, 129, 177; marriage in, 179, 181, 182
Aristocracy, its growth among the Greeks, 251, 265-267
Aristophanes, his picture of female philosophers, 338
Aspasia, preceptress of Socrates, 334; her genius, her teachings, 337-338
Assembly of the people, 156; development of the, 251; its duties, 259; its disappearance in Greece, 264; its powers among the Spartans, 293
Athene, her decision concerning paternity, 272
Athenian men, their policy, 285; ashamed of their name, 318; their wives Carians, 319; their moral degradation, 323-326
Athenian women, imported foreigners, 319; their degradation, 323; their division into classes 324; decline of influence among, 329; their reputed licentiousness, 339
_Basileus_, germ of present king, 156; does not correspond to modern monarch, 156, 255, 257; elected by a constituency, 253; abolition of the office of, 259
Birds, their courtships, 20-21; aversion of females for certain males among, 20; the female among, chooses her mate, 20, 23, 25, 108; efforts of the male to please the female among, 21; eagerness of the male among, 21, 26, 30; powers of the female among, 27; inheritance of the female among, 29; inheritance of the male among, 29; constancy of the female among, 108
Captives, not enslaved in early groups, 145; as sexual slaves, 163, 276
Chastity of early races, 110, 113, 114, 306
Common law, the, woman’s position under, 357
Cynic philosophy, the, its principles, 332
Democracy, of early races, 127; of the early Greeks, 250-251; decay of, 264-265, 267; in ancient Italy, 313
Descent, traced through men, 128, 135, 281; in Arabia, 131; in Greece, 133
Descent, traced through women, 141, 142, 157, 222; its universality, 228, 311; among the Iroquois Indians, 249; law of, 253; in Lycia, 310
Diseases of women, 61; not constitutional, 54
Ecclesiasticism, its effect on the position of women, 356-357
Egoism, its development in males, 17, 86; not pronounced among earliest races, 125, 140; its development in later ages, 155