this essay, because I
think my arguments would be weakened if I tried to re-write them.

[161:1] I do not include the father here, because under the English law
the mother is the only parent.

[166:1] See Pamphlet issued by the _National Council for the Unmarried
Mother and her Child_, page 8.

[169:1] These and similar statements are brought forward as reason for
keeping mother and child together. I need scarcely say they leave me
unmoved.

[170:1] See an excellent article on "The Love Child In Germany and
Austria," _English Review_, June, 1912.

[175:1] Article on "The Illegitimate Child," _Maternity and Child
Welfare_, September, 1917. One of the articles I was asked to answer.

[175:2] This is the plan advocated by the National Council for Unmarried
Mothers.

[187:1] Some years ago the city of Leipsic started an admirable scheme
by which illegitimately born children automatically became the wards of
officially appointed guardians.

[188:1] An excellent scheme has been drawn up and issued as a pamphlet
by "The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children"--Occasional Papers V. _Illegitimate Children_.

_Sixth Essay_

FORESEEING EVIL[193:1]

BEING CONCERNED WITH PASSIONATE FRIENDSHIPS, AND HOW RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT
MAY BE ESTABLISHED IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE.

"A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself, but the
simple pass on and are punished."--Pro. xxxvii. 12.

I

All over the world women are restless; perhaps, in no direction is this
shown more alarmingly than in the attitude of many modern girls toward
marriage and motherhood. There is dissatisfaction brewing in sexual
matters as well as in every other department of life, and only the
hypocrites cry "Peace" when there is no peace.

I have said so much about this restlessness of women that I do not want
to labor the question, rather I wish to consider what to me seem the
results as they are finding expression in the relations of women and
men. It is, of course, a subject much too difficult to allow arbitrary
judgments, all I can do is to jot down a few remarks, rough notes, as it
were, on what I have seen and thought.

And first, I would ask the reader to remember those many sex-conventions
that in the past have gathered around women's lives. I need not
enumerate them, they are known to you all, but what I want to emphasize
is that, though so many of them have been removed their influe