[169:1] These and similar statements are brought forward as reason for keeping mother and child together. I need scarcely say they leave me unmoved. [170:1] See an excellent article on "The Love Child In Germany and Austria," _English Review_, June, 1912. [175:1] Article on "The Illegitimate Child," _Maternity and Child Welfare_, September, 1917. One of the articles I was asked to answer. [175:2] This is the plan advocated by the National Council for Unmarried Mothers. [187:1] Some years ago the city of Leipsic started an admirable scheme by which illegitimately born children automatically became the wards of officially appointed guardians. [188:1] An excellent scheme has been drawn up and issued as a pamphlet by "The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children"--Occasional Papers V. _Illegitimate Children_. _Sixth Essay_ FORESEEING EVIL[193:1] BEING CONCERNED WITH PASSIONATE FRIENDSHIPS, AND HOW RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT MAY BE ESTABLISHED IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself, but the simple pass on and are punished."--Pro. xxxvii. 12. I All over the world women are restless; perhaps, in no direction is this shown more alarmingly than in the attitude of many modern girls toward marriage and motherhood. There is dissatisfaction brewing in sexual matters as well as in every other department of life, and only the hypocrites cry "Peace" when there is no peace. I have said so much about this restlessness of women that I do not want to labor the question, rather I wish to consider what to me seem the results as they are finding expression in the relations of women and men. It is, of course, a subject much too difficult to allow arbitrary judgments, all I can do is to jot down a few remarks, rough notes, as it were, on what I have seen and thought. And first, I would ask the reader to remember those many sex-conventions that in the past have gathered around women's lives. I need not enumerate them, they are known to you all, but what I want to emphasize is that, though so many of them have been removed their influence persists. Always the customs and beliefs of a past social life live on beneath the surface of society; in a thousand ways we do not recognize, they press upon the individual soul. We cannot without strong effort escape from the chains of our inheritance. In the nations of the West, where the bridegroom's joy with his bride is never spoken of except as a subject fit for jests, where celibacy has been extolled and marriage treated as "a remedy for sin," where barrenness instead of being regarded as the greatest possible evil is artificially produced, where the natural joys of the body--the sex-joys and the joy of wine and food have been confused with disgraceful things--it is there that a perpetual conflict lurks at the very heart of life; hidden it becomes more active for evil.