Public Activity 117 faults, the present conception and its conse- quences, but she also knows that right through these progress must go. She analyses the many and varied reasons for happiness and unhappiness. In telling illustrations, she points out what it is that holds the marriage intact, and what sunders it. Woman is told that it largely depends on herself if the sun of happiness becomes hidden by storm clouds. She analyses and synthesises. Much may be learned from her debates on love and marriage, originated as they are in deep feeling and keen intelligence. But, in reading all these treatises, though instructive, elevating, and overflowing with beauty of thought and expres- sion, one is not entirely free from a certain fear that by this weighing and balancing of good and evil forces, of happiness and unhappiness, of cause and effect, a sharper light than may be wholesome has fallen on the relationship of husband and wife. It is, for example, not unusual that hearers of popular addresses on diseases, when they have felt the smallest symptom of the malady described, have fainted from fear that this very malady was corroding their own organs. Likewise, it may happen that one who has felt a slight tem- porary discomfort in the region of the heart.