The task before them is of double intent, viz. of immediate utility and of far-reaching benefit. It will attract inferior natures as well as the superior, for a well-organized modern home will present more convenience, comforts and embellishments than the family homes of the past or present, and at smaller expense. Herein a certain danger lurks. Pioneers will have to guard against dropping out of the enterprise its supreme purpose and main evolutional value, viz. the raising humanity on to higher levels of happiness. There is no other policy to this end than that of domestically uniting the sexes from infancy, in order that in the idealistic period of adolescence soul may meet soul with fearless unreserve and young men and women realize by experience that in the pure realms of thought and feeling the closest union is possible. It is this union manifesting in dual sympathy that will become the liberating force of the world, and in it and through it woman’s emancipation will be complete. Woman is not undevelopt man But diverse ... Yet in the long years liker must they grow; The man be more of woman, she of man; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, She mental breadth, nor fail in child-ward care Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble words; And so these twain upon the skirts of time, Sit side by side ... Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, Self-reverent each and reverencing each Distinct in individualities, But like each other ev’n as those who love. Then comes the statelier Eden back to men; · · · · · Then springs the crowning race of humankind, May these things be! _The Princess._—TENNYSON. CHAPTER II DOMESTIC REFORM The animating spring of all improvement in individuals and in societies is not the knowledge of the actual but the conception of the possible.—H. MARTINEAU. How shall the new era be inaugurated? By ceasing to strive for self and family; by thinking of both only as instruments of the common weal.—PROF. A. W. BICKERTON.