t nevertheless determined desire on the part of the
Feminine Principle, to wait until conditions are more equal. Sometimes
we find women, who are perfectly awake and consciously aware of the
cause of their "brazen sterility," as a virile writer has caustically
termed it; but more often the conscious mental attitude is lacking and
they merely obey blindly the dominant race-mind.

Women know much more in the depths of their souls than they can put
into words. A part of this knowledge is the fact that child-bearing is
not a function limited to the physical, the mortal plane of life.
Every woman who is anywhere near balanced in the struggle for
completeness knows intuitively, that even though she may never beget
mortal children, there are innumerable opportunities for the exercise
of her maternal functions, awaiting her just behind the veil, which
seemingly separates us from invisible areas. Moreover motherhood is
qualitative. It is not synonymous with maternity. It is not made nor
unmade by the birthrate.

Two important considerations present themselves to the world today: One
is that woman--considered as the fecund receptive sex-principle--is
refusing the sex relationship on the old basis, however "respectable"
and well-intentioned that basis was. Generally speaking, it is evident
that the old basis of intercourse between the sexes has been, is
being, and will continue to be, disrupted, denied, refused, as the
approved and fixed plan and purpose of Destiny. The other important
observation is this: there is a cosmic cause for this.

It is only those who are blinded by prejudice or by sense-conscious
limitations who refuse to look below the surface for the cause of a
condition so general as that of unhappy marriages; of innumerable
divorces; of the refusal to bear children. What is the cause? Why are
women refusing to marry, or when they do marry refusing to live with
their husbands? Why do they shrink from child-birth? Are they less
courageous than their progenitors? Or are women less capable of
love--either love of children or love of the father who begets the
children?

It will be agreed that we are establishing a higher standard of love
than ever before in history. We are beginning to realize for the first
time in the history of many generations, what we owe to the future.
Formerly men built entirely for self, and for the immediate present.
We can look back and trace the development of a race consciousness
from the