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a country life, a healthy stock, and a good- 

 going controversy between character and 

 ideals, and perhaps it does not matter very 

 much whether the framework is patriarchal 

 or matriarchal. But when things go wrong 

 and that is often then organisational form 

 becomes important, as a means to an end. 

 What is plain is that there was black and 

 white in all the periods. The patriarchate 

 may imply domestic tyranny, even unto this 

 day, but not necessarily. Thus Prof. Earl 

 Barnes reminds us that the Hebrew woman of 

 the Proverbs shows us " a singularly free and 

 secure industrial position." Man's jealousy 

 on behalf of his wife may have implied Moslem- 

 like restrictions, but it was also a factor in 

 developing a tradition of respect. That 

 many of us look forward to more active 

 sexual selection on the part of women does 

 not hinder us from recognising that the 

 patriarch's sexual selection, perhaps a little 

 bucolic, may not have been a bad thing for 

 the race, nor for women either. 



Again, it was probably in the early days 

 of the patriarchate that capable women began 

 the well-concealed art, in which they were 

 till lately past-mistresses, of governing in- 

 directly. It is indeed remarkable to notice 

 how many great men who have made history, 

 have had their Egeria, and this in any and 

 every line of life, from Pericles with his 

 Aspasia to Luther and Katharina. 



In the course of its evolution the patriarchal 

 dispensation encountered many modifying 

 influences. Chief and most penetrating of 



