There is no longer much doubt of the fact that man evolved from lower animals. But, while this is an accepted truth, few realize the significant facts that follow from it. In animals, the thing we term love is merely an urge planted there for the continuation of the species. Selection is made for fitness only. The female does the choosing, and picks out the mate that seems to her to have the best attributes for the furtherance of a strong and healthy stock. Animals have no knowledge of paternity. Only in man, and that very recently, has this knowledge developed. In zoology, children are taught that certain animals eat their young, if the mother does not protect them. We are told of the brutality of the male rabbit, who is supposed to do this. But the rabbit has no realization of the fact that he had anything to do with the tiny hairless things that clutter his home. It is not male jealousy, or any such emotion that prompts this, but the sheer instinct to kill for food. The idea of paternity has grown up within civilized times. In most of the lower animals, the female is the acknowledged selector. Again, only man has built up the myth that he does the choosing. The selectivity of the female is responsible for the development of brain, and is therefore responsible for her own downfall. It was the dawning realization that men were the fathers of children that changed early civilization from a matriarchate, or mother-rule, to a patriarchate, or father-rule. Up to this time, the women, as mothers of the race, had held a high place in the tribe; she had the sole choice of mates; she ruled and guided the children to maturity. When paternity was finally acknowledged, and the man was admitted as much kin to the child as the woman, he claimed a right to part control of it. His high opinion of women, as the founders of his clan, diminished, and he commenced to domineer over her as he did over lesser males. With the acknowledgement of paternity came the first conflict between men and women. No animal ever fights with, or abuses his female, or any of the females of his pack. Man, who admits that he is made in the image of some god, was the first to introduce this lowest form of animalism into the world, and into a partly cultured world, at that. The male had become stronger than the female, through her selection of strength, and he soon became lord over, not only his children, but his wife as well. From that dark day, down to the present, man has ruled the world, and enslaved the women. He has made the laws and made them so that women have grown weaker and weaker. Today, things are changing, and once more woman is standing equal with her mate. _Natural Love._—Originally, love meant merely selection for purposes of reproduction. In the ancient days, even religion was founded upon this basic principle of fertilization. It remained for Christianity to deny the necessity of this deep fundamental fact.