54 SEX-LORE 



only following the general line of progress. There is 

 a tendency now towards a greater naturalness in the 

 mutual behaviour of the sexes, based more on the 

 individuality of man and woman than on the old 

 false standards of chivalry, which whilst raising 

 woman upon a pedestal, yet in reality debased her. 

 This spirit is waning, not only in the preliminaries of 

 marriage courtship but also in marriage itself. 



