product of sensitive love--but like Him also in His strength, His
boldness, His resolute refusal to bend before evil, His positive
activities in the name of love.

One particular feature in a woman's impulse towards independence I
cannot pass by without a special word. The very suggestion annoys some
women that they are not complete in themselves without any relation to
the other sex. Being without any conscious desire for the companionship
of man, and without any definite sex consciousness, they resent the
idea that woman is not complete in herself. To those who insist that
the sexes vitally need each other such women would reply that they are
altogether exaggerating and over-emphasizing the sex element in life.

Well, about the fact that man is not complete without woman I have no
doubt whatever. And I have no reluctance whatever about admitting it.
Perhaps that fact gives me no right to dogmatize about the other sex,
but a considerable experience has left me in no doubt about the matter.
I do not mean for a moment that a great and useful career is not
possible to women quite apart from marriage. I do not forget that many
women have great powers of intellect in the exercise of which they are
living in a world apart from sex difference. But I believe it to be a
serious mistake for either man or woman to imagine that they have no
clamant sex instinct hidden within the depths of their personalities.
And if the instinct is there it can only be folly to try to obscure the
fact. It has to be reckoned with if life is to succeed. In many women
it only awakens after early youth is past. The exceptions in whom it
never awakens must be very few indeed. If the attempt has been made to
ignore it the subsequent troubles are apt to be only the more intense.
In this matter we are confronted with an unalterable decree of nature.
To rebel against it is only to be broken in the long run. In various