shoulders. "It is," he tells himself, "after all, the woman whom God
gave him."

It must be confessed that the problem as to how man with a dual nature
may best accommodate himself to a world of violence presents a very
difficult problem.

It would obviously be no solution to follow out everywhere a programme
of violence. Not even the predatory animals do that. Tigers do not
savage their cubs; hawks do not pluck hawks' eyes; and dogs do not
fight bitches.

Nor would, as has been shown, the solution of the problem be arrived
at by everywhere surrendering--if we had been given the grace to do
this--to the compunctious visitings of nature.

What is required is to find the proper compromise. As to what that
would be there is, as between the ordinary man and woman on the one
side, and the male crank and the battalions of sentimental women on
the other, a conflict which is, to all intents and purposes, a sex
war.

The compromise which ordinary human nature had fixed upon--and it is
one which, ministering as it does to the survival of the race, has
been adopted through the whole range of nature--is that of making
within the world in which violence rules a series of enclaves in which
the application of violence is progressively restricted and limited.

Outside the outermost of the series of ring fences thus constituted
would be the realm of uncompromising violence such as exists when