ntiated education. This, I insist, is a fortunate fact of
vast importance in the mutual adjustment of the two sexes in marriage.
There could be no adjustment on an intelligent basis if education could
be utterly dissimilar. There can be perfect adjustment only when the
two individuals are adjusted harmoniously, and that means similar
outlooks on life's problems.
[Sidenote: Need of sex-education for feminism.]
Many of the problems of the modern feministic movement are such as to
demand rational education of both women and men with reference to sex
and marriage. Let me quote C. Gasquoine Hartley, whose suggestive
Chapters VIII and IX in her "Truth About Woman" (Dodd, Mead) deserve to
live long after the readable but unscientifically applied earlier
chapters are consigned to oblivion:
"To hear many women talk it would appear that the new ideal is a
one-sexed world. A great army of women have espoused the task of
raising their sex out of subjection. For such a duty the strength
and energy of passion is required. Can this task be performed if
the woman to any extent indulges in sex--otherwise subjection to
man? Sexuality debases, even reproduction and birth are regarded
as 'nauseating.' Woman is not free, only because she has been the
slave to the primitive cycle of emotions which belong to physical
love. The renunciation, the conquest of sex--it is this that must
be gained. As for man, he has been shown up, women have found him
out; his long-worn garments of authority and his mystery and
glamour have been torn into shreds--woman will have none of him.
"Now obviously these are over-statements, yet they are the logical
outcome of much of the talk that one hears. It is the visible sign
of our incoherence and error, and in the measure of these follies
we are sent back to seek the truth. Women need a robuster courage
in the face of love, a greater faith in their womanhood, and in
the scheme of Life. Nothing can be gained from the child's folly
in breaking the toys that have momentarily ceased to please. The
misogamist type of woman cannot fail to prove as futile as the
misogamist man. Not 'Free _from_ man' is the watch-cry of women's
emancipation that surely is to be, but 'Free _with_ man.'"
[Sidenote: Sex and intellectualism.]
And further on the same author, considering the problem of the women of
the common type that are classif
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