g, buries the bone he
cannot eat lest some hungry brother-dog shall get it. Nevertheless,
despite the animal greed that still shows in our modern life, there is
plenty of evidence that we are on the upward spiral that leads to
unity--the effect of love.

The superficial observer, dominated by that instinct of fear which
seems to be so ingrained in our animal nature that we are all slaves
to it in some form or degree, sees in the present-day conditions a
menace to what he believes to be the moral life of the race, and
particularly as these conditions apply to the modern woman.

He sees women coming out of the seclusion of their "rightful sphere"
and meeting men on terms of equality. He sees what he terms "immodest
dress;" defiance of traditional ideas of etiquette and conduct; he
notes what appears to be a disregard for the faith of our fathers;
and, above all, a distaste for that special function of
woman--child-bearing. The superficial observer, both male and female,
feels great alarm.

But let us not be dismayed. Present day conditions, particularly as
they relate to the female principle of Creation, but reflect the
inevitable reaction from a one-sided course. The pendulum swings back
again and ultimately we will strike a balance; from domination to
unity; from struggle to harmony. Even American commercial life admits
the value of a vacation time.

Present day conditions, then, are not chaotic or lacking in a
well-defined purpose, even though they are unsettled. Anything that
disturbs the seeming placidity of the surface always strikes alarm to
the undeveloped mind. Particularly in those phases of our modern life
which directly affect women, or in which we may say, the Female
Principle is especially concerned, we note a determined and united
demand for freedom.

Woman's demand for political equality is but a shadowgraph as it were
of the real demand which is the demand of the Divine Feminine
throughout all manifested life, for recognition of equality, in the
plan of creation. It is a symbol of the ideal of unity which finds
expression in the commercial world in trusts and labor unions; in the
"let us get together" plea of the various advocates of reform; of all
those enterprises which are seen to most directly affect the entire
human family.

That there are women who are blind to this fundamental idea of their
demand for political equality is true; and it is also true that there
are perhaps as many men as the