"Race-inertia seemed to be fairly constant, and made the chief trouble in the Russian future. History looked doubtful when asked whether race-inertia had ever been overcome without destroying the race in order to reconstruct it; but surely sex-inertia had never been overcome at all. Of all movements of inertia, maternity and reproduction are the most typical, and women's property of moving in a constant line forever is ultimate, uniting histroy in its only unbroken and unbreakable sequence. Whatever else stops, the woman must go on reproducing, as she did in the Siluria of Pteraspis; sex is a vital condition, and race only a local one. If the laws of inertia are to be sought anywhere with certainty, it is in the feminine mind." This is a perfect example of what the 2nd reading, Q5 wants us to do. It displays a passage that involves women, sex and race all in one paragraphy. It basically says that no matter howignored women were and how people looked down upon women, they will always be the most important because they are the ones that will keep life going.
As far as Adams imagining himself as a horseshoe crab, I think he's just saying that he realizes that the he will always be the same and that the women will have the power. So he'll be a horseshoe crab in the bottom of the sea while women swim about in the big ocean.
Jen
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