“As a matter of fact, the Feminist movement, as far as its moral side goes, is confined to a certain number of men who desire the extension of license; to a certain number of women who do likewise; and to a certain number of women who feel acutely that women are put upon by men in the matter of morals. That men have set up a rule of conduct for women which they don’t obey themselves. “This is not so. The sternest moralists are women, and the morality of these moralists is not an abstract quality; it arises from a profound and intuitive motherhood instinct that tells them that license is death to the welfare of the child, whether it develops and is shown in the mother or the child. “The child must restrain itself and not steal the jam; the woman must restrain herself and not let her honour be stolen.” “And, you will say, the man must restrain himself and not steal her honour?” “Certainly. “And every man, who is a man and not a cur, obeys that law as far as in him lies. “Man, you must remember, has a lot to fight against, and nothing so much as the old rules of license under which he has lived for ages. “They used to be a royal robe; they are now a beggar’s tatters. He is ashamed to be seen in them nowadays; he only puts them on in private; yet they are always crying to him to put them on, just as filth is always crying to a dog, Roll in me. “That is all I have to say about the moral side of the Feminist people. Their claim for equal freedom with man in other respects is far more pleasant to notice. And it comes to this: “Since the mass of women is just the same as the mass of men, in the name of Humanity, why should not the woman mass have the same freedom in affairs as the man, politically and socially? [Sidenote: Social and Political] “Why should the women of the nation not be free to expand their mental and bodily energy in every social and political path in which the men expand it? “Certainly they ought. But they can’t. “They could, in a nation whose units were individuals; they can’t, in a nation whose units are homes. “Every woman is a potential or actual queen-bee. Her duty is to found a hive, not to make honey. Like a man, she has only a limited quantity of energy. “The little nation of the hive or home, which is, in very fact, the nation itself writ small, makes vast calls upon the man’s energy and the woman’s. Here alone is the national life as distinct from the national affairs. “It is the germinal spot and centre of all national activity; it is the primary school of all morality; and it is the supreme province of the woman. Here she is a world Builder.