scheming by which people snatch off what they want without appearing
to, whereas men got their much or little by prosily sticking their
hands out for it.

This developed, naturally, not only somewhat diverse temperaments, hut
also greatly diverse equipments. When men cannot get what they want
now by either asking or paying for it, they have no more resources.
Bless them, they must return into the home, where the secret has been
perfected for centuries on centuries of how to hoard a private stock
and how to find a bootlegger. Under the steadily growing
nonsenseorship regime, they are obliged to come and take lessons from
the lately despised group of creatures to whom nonsenseorship is a
well-thumbed story. If the world outside the home is to become as
circumscribed and paternalized as the world inside it, obviously all
the advantage lies with those who have been living under
nonsenseorship long enough to have learned to manage it.

Thus woman moves over from her dull post as keeper of the virtues to
the far more important and exciting post as keeper of the vices. It is
not an ideal power which she thus acquires. But then none of this is
about ideals. This is just a little practical 'study in what is going
to happen, and why. Taboos never yet have added a cubit to the stature
of the soul of humanity. They have nearly always been the chattering
children of fear and pure idiocy. They have always tried to throw the
race back on to all fours, and have left the nobility of standing
upright wholly out of account.

The taboos which have surrounded women time out of mind have been so
puerile and imbecile that one quite non-partisanly wonders why on
earth they have been allowed to continue. A second thought