rofessor Soddy's "Science and Life" is one of the most
inspiring of recent publications in this field; for this great authority
shows us how closely bound up is science with the whole of Society, how
science must help to solve the great and disastrous unbalance in human
society.

As an example: a whole literature has sprung into being around the
glands, the most striking being "The Sex Complex" by Blair Bell. This
author advances the idea of the glandular system as an integral whole,
the glands forming a unity which might be termed the generative system.
Thus is reasserted the radical importance of sexual health to every
individual. The whole tendency of modern physiology and psychology, in a
word, seems gradually coming to the truth that seemed intuitively to be
revealed to that great woman, Olive Schreiner, who, in "Woman and Labor"
wrote: "... Noble is the function of physical reproduction of humanity by
the union of man and woman. Rightly viewed, that union has in it latent,
other and even higher forms of creative energy and life-dispensing
power, and... its history on earth has only begun; as the first wild rose
when it hung from its stem with its center of stamens and pistils and
its single whorl of pale petals had only begun its course, and was
destined, as the ages passed, to develop stamen upon stamen and petal
upon petal, till it assumed a hundred forms of joy and beauty.

"And it would indeed almost seem, that, on the path toward the higher
development of sexual life on earth, as man has so often had to lead
in other paths, that here it is perhaps woman, by reason of those very
sexual conditions which in the past have crushed and trammeled her, who
is bound to lead the way and man to follow. So that it may be at last
that sexual love--that tired angel who through the ages has presided
over the march of humanity, with distraught eyes, and feather-shafts
broken and wings drabbled in the mires of lust and greed, and golden
locks caked over with the dust of injustice and oppression--till those
looking at him have sometimes cried in terror, `He is the Evil and
not the Good of life': and have sought if it were not possible, to
exterminate him--shall yet, at last, bathed from the mire and dust of
ages in the streams of friendship and freedom, leap upwards, with white
wings spread, resplendent in the sunshine of a distant future--the
essentially Good and Beautiful of human existence."

To-day science is verifying t