forces the members of a family to conform insensibly to communistic
modes of thought. Paul Goehre, in his keen observations printed in
'Three Months in a German Workshop,' interpreted this tendency in all
clearness. The architecture of a city tenement house is to blame for
the silent but certain transformation of the home into a sty. Instead
of accepting this condition as inevitable, like a law of nature, and
accepting its consequences, all experience demands of those who
believe in the monogamic family, that they make a united and
persistent fight on the evil which threatens the slowly acquired
qualities secured in the highest form of the family. It would be
unworthy of us to permit a great part of a modern population to
descend again to the animal level from which the race has ascended
only through aeons of struggle and difficulty. When we remember that
very much, perhaps most of the progress has been dearly purchased at
the cost of women, by the appeal of her weakness and need and
motherhood, we must all the more firmly resolve not to yield the field
to a temporary effect of a needless result of neglect and avarice. As
the evil conditions are merely the work of unwise and untaught
communities, the cure will come from education of the same
communities in wisdom and science and duty. What man has marred, man
can make better."[18]

[18] C. R. Henderson, Proceedings Lake Placid Conference, 1902.

It is not impossible to furnish a decent habitation for every
productive laborer in all our great cities. Many really humane people
are overawed by the authority, the pompous and powerful assertions of
"successful" men of affairs; and they often sleep while such men are
forming secret conspiracies against national health and morality with
the aid of legal talent hired to kill. Only when the social mind and
conscience is educated and the entire community becomes intelligent
and alert can legislation be secured which places all competitors on a
level where humanity is possible.

Here, again, the monogamic family is the social interest at stake. It
is a conflict for altars and fires. We are told that all these results
are the effect of a natural, uniform tendency in the progress of the
business world, and that it is useless to combat it. Professor
Henderson reminds us that tendency to uniformity revealed by
statistics may be reversed when resolute men and women, possessed of
higher ideals, unite to resist it. Jacob A. Riis h