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-eminent responsibility to the human race, and live up to it. Then, with all normal and right competition among men for the favor of women, those best fitted for fatherhood will be chosen. Those who are not chosen will live single--perforce. Many, under the old mistaken notion of what used to be called the "social necessity" of prostitution, will protest at the idea of its extinction. "It is necessary to have it," they will say. "Necessary _to whom?_" Not to the women hideously sacrificed to it, surely. Not to society, honey-combed with diseases due to this cause. Not to the family, weakened and impoverished by it. To whom then? To the men who want it? But it is not good for them, it promotes all manner of disease, of vice, of crime. It is absolutely and unquestionably a "social evil." An intelligent and powerful womanhood will put an end to this indulgence of one sex at the expense of the other; and to the injury of both. In this inevitable change will lie what some men will consider a loss. But only those of the present generation. For the sons of the women now entering upon this new era of world life will be differently reared. They will recognize the true relation of men to the primal process; and be amazed that for so long the greater values have been lost sight of in favor of the less. This one change will do more to promote the physical health and beauty of the race; to improve the quality of children born, and the general vigor and purity of social life, than any one measure which could be proposed. It rests upon a recognition of motherhood as the real base and cause of the family; and dismisses to the limbo of all outworn superstition that false Hebraic and grossly androcentric doctrine that the woman is to be subject to the man, and that he shall rule over her. He has tried this arrangement long enough--to the grievous injury of the world. A higher standard of happiness will result; equality and mutual respect between parents; pure love, undefiled by self-interests on either side; and a new respect for Childhood. With the Child, seen at last to be the governing purpose of this relation, with all the best energies of men and women bent on raising the standard of life for all children, we shall have a new status of family life which will be clean and noble, and satisfying to all its members. The change in all the varied lines of human work is beyond the powers of any present day pro
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