It is indeed bitter to be termed 2 disaster and women all over the world will feel grateful to M. A. St. Clair Stobart for coming to their defense. He decries the theory that these surplus women who are denied motherhood will add tremendously to the general depravity of Society, and asserts that on the contrary the dominant instinct of woman 18 rather usefulness, which seeks above all things the safety and wellbeing: of the species and adapts itself to the requirements of the race.
In the period of physical force and the age of war the physical inferierity of women was insisted upon. "War has never appealed to women, but its antithesis, religion does, says Mr. Stobart, "and if only women were allowed by men to do for religion what men have been
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