Marriage laws to be reformed--Binding marriage in the Catholic Church--Bond of parenthood--The bond between the unattractive people--Heiresses--The childless--The extraordinarily attractive--Sordidness of English divorce--Restitution of conjugal rights--Suggested reform--Agreement in wishing for divorce should be the first cause for it--Questions of fortune or wealth to be fought out on economic grounds--Boredom the chief reason that people part, but too insulting to be mentioned in public--French _dot_--Sale of beauty--Sale of helpmate--Fixed allowance for “bed” and fixed allowance for “board”--The birth of child should automatically make a bond as in remote country places--The Saturday orgy and prudence--Drugging and prudence--The police court and the wife’s housekeeping money--A romance of the mining world 41 V THE GREEN HOUSES OF JAPAN Edmond de Goncourt’s account of courtesans in Tokio--Urgent danger of delay in reform--Fear of the spread of contagious disease--A trades union for prostitutes--The good of Public Health in this matter the good of future generations--Clean bill of health gives special susceptibility--_Les Avariés_--Anti-social rage--The various moral standards of women--Dangers of promiscuity not so great as the dangers of a cut finger or chapped lip--The sale of virginity--Intoxication leads to promiscuity, but it is not natural to the average woman--The ardour of a fresh lover her greatest temptation--Is charm of value as a racial factor? The attitude of marrying women 53 VI BEAUTY AND MOTHERHOOD The terror of motherhood--Women will specialize--Lovers of men and lovers of children--A woman has an instinct for the right father for her child; but often chooses a bad lifelong companion for herself--Useless old ethical codes--Practical suggestion for race betterment--Sterilization of the unfit--Education in the laws of sexual health--Motherly women with no chance of children--Unmotherly women attractive to men and very good helpmates--Surgical aid for the tuberculosis child-producer--Prejudices--Intellectual education 63 VII THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY Life Consciousness--The Man, the Insect, the Tree are representatives of Intellect, Instinct, and Torpid Consciousness--Henri Bergson and William James--The interplay of the three kinds of consciousness--Motherhood and the vegetative consciousness--Choosing the mate and the instinctive consciousness--The Matriarchal civilization--The surprises instinct prepares for intellect in dreams and inventions 70 VIII THE IMAGINATIVE WOMAN