26 POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



The deepest and truest ethical tendencies of the time emphasize 

 not divisions of sex or creed or party, but the unity of social service. 

 And this is social service not in the moralistic, goody-goody sense, but 

 in the sense of actual social function. If men and women are to be 

 fitted for life with this ideal in its broadest implication as a primary 

 determinant of curriculum and method, then coeducation, judged 

 either by its fruits or by its promise, and acknowledging frankly its 

 defects, is unquestionably a hopeful system. When it shows itself 

 clearly disastrous to the solidarity of the highest social interests, it 

 Avill unquestionably be discarded. But it will not be discarded upon 

 any purely doctrinaire considerations of sexual functions and capaci- 

 ties. Meantime each one of us in the last resort tests it all by his 

 own social creed, and with most of us this is at bottom largely a mat- 

 ter of feeling and not a matter of carefully rationalized judgment, a 

 reflection of our own training and surroundings and not a product of 

 our purely logical processes. Complete agreement, therefore, upon the 

 merits of coeducation is hardly to be looked for in the near future. 



