ABSTRACT
Psychology counts much more for the average person than pure science or pure philosophy. Even a biologist is human outside his laboratory; as a feminist is human when he or she steps off the platform. To the race in general, the average man is significant chiefly as a potential or actual father, the average woman as a potential or actual mother. Passion is thrown in as a bait and a lure, to one end alone. No woman suffers in childbirth as countless soldiers suffered in the late war; though it must be remembered that the pain of childbirth is the only absolutely inevitable pain which Nature has provided for those who live what Nature considers the normal life. Modern science has mitigated the suffering and the dangers of maternity, so that the modern woman who can afford nurses and specialists need dread the mere childbearing no more perhaps than the Red Indian woman does.
