Finally, in the conduct of the man of high ethical development, there will enter the factor of moral ideals. When once he feels his family about him, he will be conscious of certain duties, certain obligations, which will preclude all idea, all velleity, of not abiding by his original pledges. This man will be able to live till the end of his days with a woman, however much his feelings may have changed towards her, and still give the world the impression of being a most dutiful and most devoted husband. Temptation, sexual passion, the desire for variety, will simply not enter within his purview. The moment an irregular thought occurs to his mind, it will be, as it were, “switched off.” It should, however, be remembered that when such men are positive by nature, they will usually be found to practise in their leisure hours some kind of sport (_hard walking_, _cycling_, _golf_, _riding_) or industry (_carpentry_—true of thousands of Englishmen to-day; _wood-cutting_, e.g. Gladstone and the ex-Emperor of Germany; _stamp-collecting_ and _numismatics_—true of thousands of modern Englishmen) or religious activity (_Christian_, _Spiritualistic_ or other propaganda) in which much of their sex becomes absorbed. In Chart I, I have given figures covering a period of twenty-one years—from 1899 to 1919 inclusive, for England and Wales; and the most important conclusions to be drawn from them at a glance are the following:— (_a_) The preponderance of divorces which occur as the result of husbands’ petitions over those which occur as the result of wives’ petitions. Bearing in mind the more insistent impulse to variety in sexual experience which harasses the male throughout life, this preponderance of husbands’ petitions only tends to show the extreme difficulty with which women can tolerate either the premature cessation of child-birth or no child-birth at all. For although it may be argued that in order to obtain a divorce the woman must charge her husband with something more than the mere indulgence of his craving for variety, and therefore that proportions are misleading from this point of view, it should also be remembered that, where there has been a transference of affection with adultery on the male’s part, desertion would necessarily follow, and therefore supply the minimum grounds for the woman’s petition. CHART I. NUMBER OF CHILDREN AT TIME OF FILING PETITION OF DIVORCE.