on the present and future, which yet attracts little conscious attention or
animadversion, though it makes itself everywhere felt; as the shade of a
growing tree may be sat under year after year by persons who never remark
its silent growth.

Side by side with the "New Woman," corresponding to her, as the two sides
of a coin cast in one mould, though differing from each other in
superficial detail, are yet of one metal, one size, and one value; old in
the sense in which she is old, being merely the reincarnation under the
pressure of new conditions of the ancient forms of his race; new in the
sense in which she is new, in that he is an adaptation to material and
social conditions which have no exact counterpart in the past; more diverse
from his immediate progenitors than even the woman is from hers, side by
side with her today in every society and in every class in which she is
found, stands--the New Man!

If it be asked, How comes it to pass, if, under the pressure of social
conditions, man shows an analogous change of attitude toward life, that the
change in woman should attract universal attention, while the corresponding
change in the man of her society passes almost unnoticed?--it would seem
that the explanation lies in the fact that, owing to woman's less
independence of action in the past, any attempt at change or readaptation
on her part has had to overcome greater resistance, and it is the noise and
friction of resistance, more than the amount of actual change which has
taken place, which attracts attention; as when an Alpine stream, after a
long winter frost, breaks the ice, and with a crash and roar sweeps away
the obstructions which have gathered in its bed, all men's attention is
attracted to it, though when later a much larger body of water silently
forces its way down, no man observes it. (An interesting practical
illustration of this fact is found in the vast attention and uproar created