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prescribe what the lines of woman's evolution 

 are henceforth to be. On the other hand, we 

 are rational beings who can learn from past 

 history, and it is our prerogative to swim, not 

 drift, in social evolution. We can ask ques- 

 tions of the past ; we can analyse the present ; 

 we can get from both some basis for deliberate 

 programmes for the future. 



CONCLUSION. We have now summarised, 

 and so far as our space allows sustained, 

 the claims of woman. Mainly no doubt as 

 approached from the organic side, with its 

 individual and its family aspect, as is fitting 

 in a book primarily biological ; but also, 

 briefly upon the political side as well. The 

 economic revendications of woman as de- 

 pressed labourer have likewise been argued 

 for, her business capacity recognised, and far 

 fuller scope for her too little utilised ad- 

 ministrative aptitude is pleaded for. Yet all 

 such discussions of the woman question, 

 varied and copious though they nowadays 

 are, seem to us as yet insufficient, and at 

 best but preparatory towards yet larger 

 discussions those of scheming out the 

 possibilities of woman as active citizen; and 

 more concretely still, towards experimentally 

 opening out her goodly share in inspiring and 

 in conducting that renewal of cities and city 

 life which is at length happily incipient. 



Let us state this problem in yet another 

 way. What may be the place of woman in the 

 contemporary transformation of the indus- 

 trial age? This transition, as we are nowa- 

 days beginning to see, is clearly distinguished ; 



