i4o SCIENCE PROGRESS 



It is common to speak of an immoral person as a brute, but 

 it is not true. If all women had the healthy sexual and maternal 

 instincts of animals, these evils would not exist. 



The demand for equality in the matter of divorce is not well 

 based, for it pays no attention to the physiological differences 

 in the two sexes, and, if it should be granted, would probably 

 decrease the stability of family life, which is the fundamental 

 basis of every nation. 



These subjects have been mentioned here because they figure 

 so largely in the discussions on the supposed inequality of 

 women. Women can rightly claim, and generally receive, pre- 

 ferential treatment, but they cannot obtain equal treatment, 

 except to their own detriment, for it has no firm basis in 

 biological conditions. The natural protector of womankind is 

 man, not woman. Motherhood is the true ideal for women ; a 

 voluntary celibacy is not virtue, but at best the expression of a 

 neurosis. 



II.— By O. A. CRAGGS, D.Sc. 



When— more than a year ago — a number of women knelt in 

 prayer for votes before the Rhadamanthuses of Westminster 

 and hoped that they were at the very point of melting those 

 stony hearts and brains, in ran a wild person flourishing a 

 torch. This flambeau, he cried, was the Torch of Science ; 

 which had lighted him to see into the very depths of feminine 

 nature ; in which he had descried nothing but physical and 

 mental weakness, vanity, silliness, hysteria, emotion, partiality, 

 dogmatism, excitability, unreasonableness, and utter ignorance. 

 Woman's place in nature was (he said) merely that of a semi- 

 human matrix of humanity (which is really man) ; and she was 

 fit only to scrub doorsteps, to cook, and to bear children. At 

 this, not only did the assembled idols harden their hearts and 

 refuse the women's petition, but, as Carlyle says, innumerable 

 Rushlights and Sulphur-matches were kindled at the torch and 

 waved up and down the world by other wild persons ; and the 

 women went away and redoubled their violences, and even 

 rooted up Golf-greens. 



I protest that the torch was not that of Science at all, but a 

 miserable counterfeit lighted by politicians to dazzle the eyes of 

 their own likes. For votes for women I care not a jot, either 



