n women seek to evade maternity it is either because of
lack of sufficient means to care for children, or it is because of
lack of sufficient love. Or it is because of fear of that modern
mo-loch, Public Opinion.

When a woman truly loves a man, she longs to be the mother of his
children. A balanced world will make it possible for every woman to be
free from the bondage of fear and poverty, and ill-health, leaving her
free to be guided in the most vital and important function of her
life, by the call of the highest love of which she is capable. Love
will establish motherhood as a divine privilege. Certainly no other
power on earth or in the realms above can do so. Neither preachments
nor platitudes, nor punishments, nor legislative blunderings. Love is
the only saviour of mankind. There is no other true God.

Some day the symbol of Deity which now depicts Man crucified will be
superseded upon all altars by the image of a winged babe, and when
this comes to pass, Humanity will rise to that ideal.

CHAPTER IV

THE HISTORY OF MARRIAGE AND MATING

Any attempt to discuss subjects pertaining to the sex-relation with
intelligence and an optimistic outlook is handicapped by the fact that
sex-problems are so intimately associated with religious prejudices,
reasons for which we have already mentioned in the chapter devoted to
sex-worship and sex-degradation.

It is possible, therefore, that in seeking to define freedom and to
make a plea for the freeing of women and men from the "bonds" of
matrimony, we may be accused of seeking to demolish with one blow, so
to speak, the social institution of marriage.

Such is not the intention of the present writer, for reasons which are
based upon something far more noteworthy than a concession to the
prejudices and "beliefs" of the average.

Luther Burbank has said: "In pursuing any of the everlasting and
fundamental laws of nature, all previous bias and inherited prejudices
must be laid aside, if the student hopes to be taken into Nature's
confidence and be the sharer of her secrets."

The average person, entrenched behind the bulwark of theological
bias, saturated with a belief in the finality of all previous
discovery and knowledge, teems with a fanatical desire to "defend his
God"--as if the Supreme Power, whatever name we give it--were not
capable of self-defense.

It is due to this mistaken zeal on the part of the shor