rewards in the next world. Who will not permit the American home to be destroyed, and will not refuse to perform their duties to their children and to the husband or to the wife.

Who will not accept the slavery of the Socialistic community and employment of the State, and will not break up the God-given unity of the marriage state.

Besides which it will be found physically impossible for women to accept employment or fulfil hard duties by hard and continuous labor. This is well expressed by Maurice Parmelee, who shows it is absolutely necessary for a woman to remain more or less dependent on a man, especially if she is to assume motherhood.

"But this question as to whether women can enter all Occupations as freely as men cannot be determined solely upon considerations which are purely and immediately economic in their character. There are at least three other important factors involved which interfere with the purely economic solution upon the basis of free personal competition. In the first place, the functions of child bearing`and child rearing interfere seriously with female labor. In the second place, marital and family unions tend to conflict with the mobility of female labor. In the third place, male gallantry tends to check woman's economic productiveness.

"It is obvious that the functions of child bearing and rearing must fall most heavily upon the woman. At all times a large part of the women must be practically or wholly disabled by these functions.

"This means, in the first place, that they must be supported while thus disabled. But it also means, under the present economic and social organization that the probability of their becoming disabled makes it more difficult for them to enter the economic field, while if they succeed in entering, the disability, however temporary it may be, throws them out without any assurance usually of being able to re-enter later. Under the present system the woman becomes dependent upon a man, usually her husband, and usually continues dependent upon him even after she is no longer disabled. It is true that medical science and social devices for the care of children have greatly lessened the extent to which women are disabled by child

bearing and rearing. But under the present system it is bound to remain a serious handicap upon women in the economic world and to force them to become dependent upon the men. Under some other system, as, for example, some forms of Socialism, where social support would be provided the disabled woman and the assurance of being able to re-enter the economic field when capable of doing so, the handicap would be much less. However, the temporary absence would still handicap her somewhat in competition with the men and women who were not performing the functions of bearing and rearing."-Maurice Parmelee.

VII.

FEMINISM AKIN TO SOCIALISM

or for creature-comforts and a good name to sell herself, soul and body, into life-long bondage. While she, more and more, has accepted as inevitable the situation; and moved, sad-eyed, to her patient and uncomplaining work, to the narrow sphere and Detty details of household labor and life, of patience and self-effacement, of tenderness and love, little noticed and less understood; or twisted herself into a ridiculous mime of fashion and frivolity, if so she might find a use for her empty head, and some favor with her lord; her own real impulses and character, her own talents and genius, all the while smothered away and blighted, her brain dwarfed, and her outlook on the world marred by falsity and ignorance."-Edward Carpenter, Love's Coming-of-Age, pages 39-40.

The above by Edward Carpenter, a leading English Socialist, describes his idea of the forlorn condition of women which coincides with the Feminists' idea of themselves. In this matter the views of Socialists and Feminists are identical, and the remedies proposed by them are practically the

same.

The Socialists also agree with the Feminists that the possession of private property in the hands of man has stimulated him to be a tyrant and impelled him to enslave his "mate"- -woman. Both the Socialist and Feminist are working for the liberation of the female.

Both agree that the code of morality has restricted woman's freedom, or more properly, license, and so both are opposed to Christianity.

Lida Parce, a prominent Socialist writer, argues that the

conditions among primitive tribes were better for woman than they are in civilized society.

But according to Socialist and Feminist logic, she has no proof of this, but puts in a compelling sentence that it "must be supposed." When either Feminist or Socialist have no absolute proof to fill out a line of argument, they want to force a false premise as being true.

"There is much to show that the greed of private property was the old Serpent which brought about the fall of our first parents; for as this sentiment-the chief incentive to modern Civilization-rose and spread with a kind of contagion over the advancing races of mankind, the human Male, bitten by it, not only claimed possession of everything he could lay hands upon, but ended by enslaving and appropriating his own mate, his second self-reducing her also to a mere chattel, a slave and a plaything."-Carpenter, Love's Coming-of-Age, pages 38-39.

"The introduction of agriculture changed woman's status to the rest of society, and submerged her into a slave-like position, in which she had no rights that man was bound to respect."

"The new code of morality wiped out all of woman's freedom and made her a slave to man, both as a laborer and a sexual being."-Our Mental Enslavement, page 18.

"Where tribes have ceased to advance at any stage, it must be supposed that it was largely because women were too much oppressed to be able to make improvements and inventions."-Lida Parce, Lesson Outlines, Etc., page 22.

"She does not merely disapprove of the contemporary 'home' as wasteful and inefficient-she hates it because it vulgarizes life. In this 'home,' this private food-preparing and baby-rearing establishment, she sees a machine which breaks down all that is good and noble in women, which degrades and petrifies them."-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women as World Builders, page 25.

Both Socialists and Feminists agree on discrediting the home, call it vulgar, inefficient, and that the work degrades all that is good in them, and both therefore declare for the abolition of the home and for the establishment of the Socialistic co-operation.

They all agree that our whole commercial system should