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CONSTAyCE L. ilAYyAED, ON THE 



any other. Here in faithful and often unnoticed work, we can 

 write deep into the heart of our Country, and inspire the whole 

 world as no one else can. We write deep, but we do not sign 

 our names to what we write, as the men do I TVe are the Mothers 

 of the Xation, and through the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 

 that is the highest vocation of which it is possible to conceive. 



DiSCCSSION. 



The Chairmax (Dr. A. T. Schofield) : We have all been much 

 delighted with ^Miss Mavnard's paper, which marks a high standard 

 of thought and feeling. As we should Hke a good discussion I will 

 content myself with a very few brief remarks. 



On p. 30 I note that it is said that the principle amoDg.st httle 

 children that " flight is Right " is not wrong. I venture to suggest 

 that what iliss Maynard would convey is that " the man-spirit (in 

 the child) claiming his inheritance is not wrong. 



That Might is Eight " is a lie, we all know, and for years we 

 have suffered and bled to prove it so. Moreover., on p. 33, line 10, 

 Miss Maynard points out that one is but " a means," and the other 

 " an end/' and that Might is not Pwight. What is right is beautifully 

 brought out on p. 31. 



I think no man would have the courage to have made the state- 

 ment on p. 32 that women " have no power of invention : in the 

 face of many thousands of patents taken out by them, may we not 

 qualify this a little ? The fact, however, that the best cooks, 

 musicians, and dressmakers are men certainly strengthens Miss 

 ^laynard's position, and is most remarkable. 



Lower down on p. 32 we get the great principle that while man 



fights for his own present life " woman looks for the future," 

 a point of enormous importance that is fully dealt with by Benjamin 

 Kidd in his last work, The Science of Pouer. There can be no 

 doubt that our ideals are changing. We are far indeed from the 

 time when the typical John Bull had any resemblance to a 

 typical Englishman, and to me it is quite clear that as civilization 

 advances, the typical man and woman tend more and more in 

 many ways to resemble each other. Our Lord was, as we know, 

 " born of a woman," and students have long observed that the 

 characteristics revealed in the Gospels are rather those of typical 



