ming untenable, with the higher position and
culture of women. It is becoming an impossibility for intelligent women
with a knowledge of physiology and an added sense of their own dignity
to accept the lower moral standard for men, which exposes them to the
risk of exchanging monogamy for a peculiarly vile polygamy--polygamy
with its sensuality, but without its duties--bringing physical risks to
their children and the terrible likelihood of an inherited moral taint
to their sons. It is an impossibility, now that mothers know, that they
should remain indifferent as to what sort of manhood they send out into
the world--the so-called manhood that either makes and maintains the
miserable sinner of our streets or is content to give a tainted name to
the mother of his child, or the true manhood lifted into God, whose
marriage is the type of the eternal union of God and the soul, of Christ
and the Church, and whose fatherhood claims kinship with the Father of
lights. It is impossible for women who are agitating for the
enfranchisement of their sex to accept as a necessary class in the midst
of a democratical society a class of citizens who, in Dr. Welldon's[42]
words, addressed to the University of Cambridge, "have lost once for all
time the rights of citizenship--who are nobody's wives, nobody's
sisters, nobody's friends, who live a living death in the world of men.
There are one hundred and fifty thousand such citizens,--perhaps far
more, in England and Wales--_and all are women_."

These old positions are simply impossible, each a moral _reductio ad
absurdam_. We must institute a new and higher order. To do so we women
must unite in a great silent movement, a temple slowly rising up beneath
our hands without sound of axe or hammer. It will not make itself heard
on platforms; its cry will not be heard in our streets. It will go on
beneath the surface of our life, probably unheeded and unnoticed of
men. Women must educate women; those who know must teach those who are
in ignorance. Let mothers who have been roused to the greatness of the
issues at stake take as their field of labor the young mothers whom they
may know--possibly their own married daughters or nieces, possibly those
who are only bound to them by ties of friendship. Use this book, if you
will. If there are things in it which you don't approve of--and oh, how
much of the divine patience of our Lord do we need with one another in
dealing with this difficult questio