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these are but what he too was aiming at all 

 along, in the three phases we have so harshly 

 criticised. Instead of denying this, let us 

 rather see and confess the dangers of these 

 new stages repeating the errors of those 

 they seek to replace. Once more feminine 

 intuition and mother-wit, and even its oldest 

 traditions, aid us ; for is not the right order 

 of these three the very reverse of that in 

 which we have been following the paleotects ? 

 Should it not be, as every woman knows, 

 first ethical and social, that is eupsychic, and 

 thus eugenic ; then synthetic and geotechnie ; 

 and thus educative and healthy ? These 

 clearly presented in thought, and aimed at 

 in consistent action, there will be no fear of 

 eutechnics. For if we are first seeking the 

 ideal in society, and its expression in the 

 community, in the city, in the family, then 

 the individual mind will be sane and strong; 

 and if so, the body will function at its very 

 utmost health, and even prolong and increase 

 this. But given socially inspired and civic 

 purpose, vivid mind and vital muscle, then 

 gesture will be graceful, but that is art ; grip 

 will be stout and sure, and that is labour : 

 yet both reunited, in craft; and no longer 

 dissociated and futile, as at present, between 

 factory and studio, slum and drawing-room. 

 This central antithesis of paleotechnic and 

 neotechnic, thus involves the passage from 

 the predominant mechanocentric thought and 

 philosophy of industrial man to the origina- 

 tive, biocentric instinct and inspiration of 

 domestic woman. 



