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9^ The Century of the Child
manifestations of the times that, while women
preach about the rights of woman and her
will to work and to act unrestrained by
family ties, men like Ibsen, for example, in
When We Dead Pople Awake, show that the
real Fall of Man in life is transgression of the
law of love, meaning that man through this
transgression not only diminishes his person-
ality, but lessens his creative capacity.
It would appear as though men were ap-
proaching the conception of love once held by
women, while women were beginning to regard
love as a petty episode in life compared with
what are really its true concerns, an episode
which gives life the colour of a sensual, senti-
mental, psychological, or sportsmanlike ad-
venture, an episode which she treats as a game
which she can get into, and just as easily get
out of. From this new position in which ex-
tremes meet, suffering, previously undreamed
of, must arise. Such results coming to the
emancipated woman will I hope reveal to her
the eternal laws of her own being, laws from
which she cannot be freed without destroying
herself.
I would not put the slightest liindrance, how-
ever, in the way of a single isolated woman
pursuing her own path freely, if it leads her
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