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cannot or will not hear the other side. Character, 

 earnestness, truth, morality, especially morality in its 

 highest form of kindliness, appear to be in no danger : 

 for never in our history, so much as now, have men 

 and women been so eager to know what is true, do 

 what is right, and feel what is merciful. It is in the 

 f ' sex " question particularly that ancient boundaries 

 are being widened (or needful bonds burst). Fer- 

 mentation is still in active operation ; the clearing, or 

 settling down, process has not yet begun. To me at 

 least one thing is clear : the writers who it is a 

 welcome sign are mostly women will, I believe, be 

 found to be divided into two typically representative 

 temperamental schools. In one the writer has a larger 

 congenital capacity for scolding a man than for loving 

 him; in the other the capacity for loving him is the 

 stronger of the two. Both groups of writers have 

 their uses, for assuredly all men deserve to be scolded 

 and some wish, if they do not deserve, to be loved. 

 It is not a little remarkable to find that the social 

 scolds in books (and on platforms) have one sort of 

 bodily conformation and hair-growth the less im- 

 passioned sort of these pages while another sort is 

 found in the advocates of an era in which the emotions 

 are to have a more unfettered play. One word of 

 precaution, however, may prevent grave misleading : 

 certain writers, mostly men perhaps, have so little 

 depth of emotion that they use words, and phrases, and 

 put forward proposals with an almost reckless freedom 

 because they are insensible to the deeper meaning 

 which such words and ideas carry to the more im- 

 passioned temperaments. Neither in language nor in 

 conduct is license necessarily synonymous with passion. 

 In studying the bodily conformation, as seen in their 



