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CONSTANCE I.. MAYXAKD, ON THE 



For she that out of Lethe scales with man 

 The shining steps of Xature, shares with man 

 His nights, his days, moves vdth him to one goal, 

 Stays all the fair young planet in her hands, — 

 If she be small, slight-natured, miserable, 

 How shall men grow ? " 



Let me end where I began. Our supreme inheritance is the 

 children, the world of the immediate future. The whole of 

 Immaturity Hes in our hands, and first impressions are strongest. 

 The man makes the aeroplane and discovers the bacteria of 

 disease, but we make the man who does these things : we make 

 him, body, mind and soul. The man is the best General, Admiral, 

 Legislator, Magistrate, Lawyer, Explorer, Inventor, and almost 

 all else. I feel no hesitation in saying he is far the best ; but 

 the woman forms the pjrinciples on which all these rulers respec- 

 tively work. Moji rows, but Woman steers. Man gives the hard 

 work and the whole roimd world is his heritage to shape and 

 govern, but Woman moulds the men who rule it, and is ever 

 hoping that the next generation will be wiser, nobler, better than 

 the present one. We may indeed say that Man has what is, but 

 Woman has what will be. The whole store of her thoughts and 

 hopes Hes always just beyond the blue horizon.out in the unknown, 

 and if the woman is a Christian, that means that she looks toward 

 the ideal of Christ, to uhat aught to be rather than to what is. 

 Man represents the soHd and practical, and Woman the vague 

 but bright ideal, that she hardly knows how to reaHse. 



It is e^-ident that they ought to live together and work hand in 

 hand, but convention, reasonably enough, makes things difficulty 

 and it is my experience that, whether singly or in communities, 

 Eve Lives alone better than does Adam. She must have plent j 

 of work and of outside interests to keep her from ptetty quarrelhng, 

 and then she does nobly. Some lead and some foUow, and there 

 is much true love, and much faithful and generous help. My 

 personal experiences have been very happy here. Adam does 

 not fare so well. He may have very hard work, world-wide 

 interests, and good companionships, and yet a kind of lack is 

 ever present with him, and the Di\'ine verdict is proved true, 

 that " it is not good that man should be alone." A reason for 

 his labour is needed, an ultimate end to live and die for, for life 

 to a true man is not worth K\'ing unless there is something for 

 which he may unhesitatingly fling it away. AU his contrivances 

 are uninteresting without this motive in the background of them 



