The Winslow mail., 1914-11-21
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THAT is the mems doings." said
Edith Hayden.
There Is no evil between men and
women that is not common evil,
said karenin. 1T is you poets, Kahn,
with your love songs which turn the
sweet fellowship of comrades into this
woman centered excitement But
there is something in women, in many
women, which responds to these provo,
cations. They succumb to peculiarly
self cultivating egotism. They become
the subjects of their own artistry
They develop and elaborate themselves
as scarcely any man would ever do
They look for golden canopies. And
even when they seem to react against
that they may do it still. l have been
reading in the old papers of the move
ments to emancipate women that were
going ON before the discovery of atomic
force. These things, which began with
a desire to escape from the limitations
and servitude of sex, ended in an in
famed assertion of sex, and women
more heroines than ever. Helen of
Holloway was at last as big nuisance
in her way as Helen of Troy, and so
long as you think of yourselves as WO-
men'-he held out finger at Rachel
and smiled gently-"fnstead of think
ing of yourselves as intelligent beings.
YOU will be in danger of-Helenism.
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think of yourselves in relation to men.
You can't escape that consequence.
You have to learn to think OF your
selyes-for our sakes and your own
sakes-in relation to the sun and stars
You have to cease to be our adventure,
Rachel, and come with US upon our ad-
ventures"
He waved his hand toward the dark
sky above the mountain crests.
"E%HESE questions are the next
v questions to which research
b will bring us answers" said
Karenin. while we sit here
and talk idly and inexactly of what is
needed and what may be, there are
hundreds of keen witted men and
women who are working these things
out, dispassionately and certainly, for
the love of knowledge. The next sci
ence to yield great harvests now will
be psychology and neural physiology.
These perpleXities of the situation be.
tween man and woman and the
trouble with the obstinacy of ego
tism-these are temporary troubles,
he issue of our own times. Suddenly
Ill these differences that seem so fixed
will dissolve, all these incompatibles
will run together, and we shall go on
mold our bodies and our bodily feel
ngs and personal reactions as boldly
IS we begin now to carve mountains
md set the seas in their places and
hange the currents Of the winds"
at is the next wave" said Fowler,
Who had come out upon the terrace
ind seated himself silently behind
<arenin'S chair.
"Of course, in the old days." said
edwards, men were tied to their city
n their country, tied to the homes they
wned or the work they did"
81 do not see," said Karenin, that
here is any final limit to mans power
# self modification"
There is none." said Fowler, walk
ng forward and sitting down upon the
,arapet in front of Karenin SO that he
ould see his face. There is no abso-
ute limit to either knowledge or power
[ hope you do not tire yourself talk
ng."
81 am Interested" said Karenin. 81
suppose in little while men will cease
to be tired. suppose in a little time
1Ou will give us something that will
nurry away the fatigue products and
restore our jaded tissues almost at
once. This old machine may be made
to run without stacking or cessation"
"That is possible, Karenin. But
there is much to learn"
"And all the hours we give to diges-
ton and half living. Don't you think
there will be some way Of saving
these?"
Fowler nodded assent.
"And then sleep again. When man
with his blazing lights made an end
to night in his towns and houses-it
Is only hundred years or so ago that
was done-then it followed he would
presently resent his eight hours of
uselessness. Shan't we presently take
tabloid or lie in some field of force
that will enable us to do with an hour
OF so Of slumber and then rise refresh.
ed again?"
"Frobisher and Ameer Ali have done
work in that direction"
"And then the Inconvenience Of age
and those diseases of the system that
come with years; steadily you drive
them back and you lengthen and
lengthen the years that stretch between
the passionate tumults of youth and
the contractions Of senility. Man, who
used to weaken and die as his teeth
decayed, now looks forward to a con-
tinually lengthening, continually fuller
term Of years. And all those parts of
him that once gathered evil against
him, the vestigial structures and odd
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