men may wander from the home and fireside, it is a peculiar
fact that they generally hold to a mental string by which they may
find their way back again, very frequently the more contented to be
there for their wanderings. But with a woman it is different. Once a
woman has broken loose from the ties that have bound her to her
inherited post of morality-preserver, she seldom goes back again, but
keeps on her way until she finds that for which she seeks, or gives up
the search of her own volition.

Is this, then, evidence that it is a woman's first duty to "stay put"
when matrimonial exigencies have placed her in a specific "pocket" of
the matrimonial billiard-table?

We believe not; and this belief is founded upon the fact that the
female principle, which is, we admit, the centralizing, centripetal
force in the cosmos, is not always manifested in the form of woman.
The balanced individual is bi-sexual, even as the balanced "twain-one"
is bi-sexual. If man was all male principle, and woman all female
principle they would not be complementary, but antithetical. Each must
be balanced within himself and herself before they can merge into each
other.

Affinities are numerous, but mates are found but once; otherwise, the
problems that are being discussed here would never have arisen.

If, then, as has been shown in the fact that only counterpartal unions
are real, eternal and spiritually indissoluble; and that only true
mates can thus unite, and when thus united have no desire to wander,
what becomes of our ideas of sexual infidelity?

Since the very law of the Cosmos has seen to it that we cannot be
untrue to the only one who seemingly has a right to our fidelity in
the sex relation and since this union can become general only by
freeing love from bondage, what becomes of the laboriously built up
ethics of our social intercourse?

Are they to be abandoned as of no value?

We can almost hear the storm of protest which the righteous reader may
feel in duty bound to let loose at such a suggestion, if for no other
reason than that protest is the accepted way of proving one's own
virtuous tendencies.

In the early seventies, a woman named Virginia Woodhull brought down
upon her defenseless head the un-Christian-like abuse of the Christian
public by announcing a doctrine which seems to have been nothing more
dreadful than that of an equal standard of morality for men and women.
The poor woman died broken-hearted, it is sa