What have you done? You have deprived them of their primary adaptations. The same holds good of Woman. Millions of women to-day are hopelessly irrevocably deprived of their primary adaptations, and _even those who are given their primary adaptations, so frequently receive them in a form that is inadequate and unsatisfying, effete and inferior_, that even among the married women of our day there is a depth of disappointment, disillusionment and vague dissatisfaction that makes some of them even more miserable than their single sisters. The latter, at least, are still able to hope against hope (a wonderful power in women); the others can only await the end, knowing the worst and knowing that everything is hopeless. How do we men absolve ourselves from the blame of this? For it is certainly we who mould society and ourselves, even if we do not mould women. How do we try to evade, escape, circumvent the main issue?—We have the effrontery to teach Woman the doctrine that since we fail them both in quantity and quality, there is a life away from us and the children they could have from us that is worth living. We do not scruple to tell them that they can be happy, content, comfortable, without the surroundings to which they are primarily adapted. We abet and promote a process by which millions of our women deliberately turn their backs upon their primary adaptations, and spring to our side like neuters in the arena of _our_ active life, _our_ besotting duties, _our_ drudgery! But not content with undermining their health and their happiness by denying the just privilege of their primary adaptations, we undermine their spirits by casting them like convicts into the wheels of the very machine that has already reduced us to such pale shadows of our former selves, such faint echoes of manhood, that they were rightly growing dissatisfied with us. But not only that, we taught them that they could find happiness in this independence, in this single-handed struggle—_happiness_! Aye, there were even some women who arose and assured their sisters that we were right and that they could _live lives_, yes, and enjoy _Life_, in this independent isolation! If this were not all visible before us, many would still refuse to believe it. Unfortunately it is all only too true! This incredible farce is _our_ present-day existence—_our age_! We have actually not refrained from telling young girls that they can _live a life_ away from their principal adaptations!