or
she is abnormally active in that function. In truth, the same state of
affairs prevails here, as in so many other phases of our modern life,
namely, there is no balance. We are a civilization of extremes; we are
one-sided, abnormal; distorted. We are seeking the pivotal point of
our destiny, which is the soul, but few have reached that point. Those
who have not, are groping through the jungles of the mental plane of
consciousness, upheld on the one hand by the upward trend of their
being, which seeks the level of the soul-conscious state; and held
back on the other hand by the trammels of the sense-conscious type
from which the race has developed to its present condition.

Those instances where women indulge in excesses are comparatively rare
in proportion to numbers, and they loom large in perspective because
of their very incongruity with our ideals of womanly conduct. The vast
majority of women may be safely trusted to use their sex-freedom, when
it shall have truly arrived, for the purpose of finding that one and
only mate which their souls instinctively know to be our rightful
heritage--the proverbial "pearl of great price" which insures
immortality in the bliss of union with our Beloved.

Love, when freed from the illusions of sense; from the shackles of
commercialism; from the bonds of error regarding the meaning and
purpose of marriage; freed from selfishness and licentiousness; will
solve the question of sex-promiscuity. This for the obvious reason
that Love seeks its own. If left free to seek, it will find.

But, if sex promiscuity is far from being free-love, if the doctrine
of sex freedom is fraught with many dangers under our present social
system, it must be conceded that no one method of social evolution,
thus far devised, can be recommended as ideally perfect. The best that
we can hope to do is to emphasize the importance and the sacredness
and the innate purity of the sex-relation, while conceding to both
sexes all the personal liberty possible.

And above all, we should avoid condemnation of those who claim the
right to freedom, lest we cover up a condition which can but be the
better for being open to the light. Particularly should we shield
women from the charge of immorality, and licentiousness, when we see
them straying down the by-paths of the senses, in their quest for
freedom, remembering that the centuries of repression and submission
and consequent deception have left their mark upon w