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CONTENTS
I. AS TO HUMANNESS. II. THE MAN-MADE FAMILY. III.

HEALTH AND BEAUTY. IV. MEN AND ART. V. MASCULINE
LITERATURE. VI. GAMES AND SPORTS VII. ETHICS AND
RELIGION. VIII. EDUCATION. IX. "SOCIETY" AND "FASHION"
X. LAW AND GOVERNMENT. XI. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.
XII. POLITICS AND WARFARE. (with WOMAN AND THE
STATE.) XIII. INDUSTRY AND ECONOMICS. XIV. A HUMAN
WORLD.

OUR ANDROCENTRIC CULTURE, or THE MAN-MADE WORLD
I.
AS TO HUMANNESS.
Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which
we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common
stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of
clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity.
In some grazing regions the sheep is an object of terror, destroying
grass, bush and forest by omnipresent nibbling; on the great plains,
sheep-keeping frequently results in insanity, owing to the loneliness of
the shepherd, and the monotonous appearance and behavior of the
sheep.
By the poet, young sheep are preferred, the lamb gambolling gaily;
unless it be in hymns, where "all we like sheep" are repeatedly
described, and much stress is laid upon the straying propensities of the
animal.
To the scientific mind there is special interest in the sequacity of sheep,
their habit of following one another with automatic imitation. This
instinct, we are told, has been developed by ages of wild crowded
racing on narrow ledges, along precipices, chasms, around sudden
spurs and corners, only the leader seeing when, where and how to jump.
If those behind jumped exactly as he did, they lived. If they stopped to
exercise independent judgment, they were pushed off and perished;
they and their judgment with them.
All these things, and many that are similar, occur to us when we think
of sheep. They are also ewes and rams. Yes, truly; but what of it? All
that has been said was said of sheep, _genus ovis,_ that bland beast,
compound of mutton, wool, and foolishness. so widely known. If we
think of