LIFE COMPANIONSHIP 



Shall the cold voice of science strive to dictate to 

 this old-world passion? Assuredly, Yes. The pas- 

 sion of love has its foundations in the same bodily and 

 mental needs that afford foundation to the other appe- 

 tites, desires, and passions. Nature everywhere sets 

 the model, and it is for civilized man, in proportion to his 

 advancing culture, to improve upon the model. Man 

 got on very well for numberless generations without 

 rules for eating, for drinking, for exercising, for think- 

 ing and remained a barbarian. In proportion as he 

 came to apply rules, culled from the school of expe- 

 rience, he became civilized, cultured, intellectual, moral. 

 But scarcely in any other field has he allowed the prime- 

 val instinct to hold sway so little influenced by the rules 

 of organized knowledge as in this all-essential matter 

 of the union of the sexes. 



The average man shows less intelligence in selecting 

 a life-companion, to become the mother of his children, 

 than the average breeder shows in selecting sires and 

 dams for his herd of cattle, his drove of horses, or his 

 flock of sheep. And as for the average woman it is 

 scarcely considered modest for her to admit that she 

 has a choice until she has been singled out for attention. 

 Like the menial at the banquet of a king, she may not 

 speak till she is spoken to. 



"The world is getting on fairly well none the less," 

 you say? But is it? What of the vast army of un- 

 fortunates making up the "submerged tenth" of our 

 cities; the starving thousands and underfed millions; 

 the unemployed and those unfit to seek employment; 

 the criminals, the idiots, the insane dependents; the 



