“She does want license, as a matter of fact; one would be blind who looked at her programme and did not see that. “And the license she wants is not the license to steal, or lie, or murder, or commit arson. When she talks of forming her own morals, she has one morality entirely and solely in view—the morality that presides over Love; and when she asks for license, it is license in Love. “Men have more license in this matter than women. That is undoubtedly so. “Men, since the beginning of the world, have had more license than women; but that license is a relic of barbarism. It was useful once, but it is becoming less useful every day, and _pari passu_ men are becoming more moral.” “Useful once?” “In this way. Men in the past were the fertilisers of the world. Who brought Roman blood to England, Norman blood, Norse blood? Men. Roman, Norman, and Norse women had nothing to do with the matter. Their duty was to stay at home and be moral. Armed and roaming men fertilised the world, just as bees fertilise a field of clover, crossed the races, and made the vitality of them. “Roman, Norse, and Norman virtues that make England great were born of Roman, Norse, and Norman license. The same fact applies to all Europe. But the day of the free-lance in love is gone. He who was once a world-maker is now a world-curse. He is not now a world-maker, but a Home-wrecker and a woman-wrecker. “Nations no longer require him for a fertiliser. Men no longer travel in masses, armed with spears; they go in railway carriages, accompanied by their families, and the world can get all the fertilisation it wants by immigration. “License still lives among men, but it lives as a reptile; among men it is dying, yet Feminists, when they ask for license, would give this dying thing a new birth among women. They forget that what was once a bad necessity is now a hideous and dying superfluity. [Sidenote: The Right of Motherhood] “I have heard it stated by Feminists that motherhood is the right of every woman. “So is fatherhood the right of every man, and on that plea a man might base a very wide scheme of immorality. “As a matter of fact, there is something else: the right of the child. “A woman has _no_ right to motherhood unless she can provide a home for her child. A father has no right to fatherhood who cannot do likewise. And by a home I do not mean shelter and food; I mean everything sacred that lies in that word Home. Love, affection, self-restraint, mutual respect, and family respect. “Of course, if the Feminist says, Destroy the home, one has nothing more to say. She is logical. “But to say, I shall increase license among women without injuring or destroying the home, at once reduces her to a person who is not logical.