There should not seven hundred thousand extra ladies than males, but seven hundred thousand more females than males within the United Kingdom. Looking these figures straight in the face, we find the precise proportion of the sexes to be as 172 males to 179 females. In all the animal kingdom the females are used only for reproduction; there aren't any true females which are sterile. And the explanation why they've finished so are abundantly evident to anybody who takes a wide and prolonged view of the current crisis-for a disaster it undoubtedly is-within the position of girls. It is we who develop his imaginative thought for him, by suggesting little leaden dolls of Conscientious Objectors in fastened attitudes of refined repugnance; or an entire regiment of tiny Quakers with little grey coats and white flags. It is we and not he who can behold the whole vista and vanishing perspective of his personal opinions; and work out what he actually means. He won't attempt to knit the whole world to himself by superficial, transitory bonds, to heap up all of the issues of the world in a pyramid over his identify. It is a minimum of clear that the painters of Leda and Danäe have pondered over the problem, and plenty of nice writers-I have in thoughts Zola's "Confession of Claude," his "Hortense," "Renée," and "Nana," Tolstoi's "Resurrection," Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," and "Rita," and above all of the "Sonja" of that nice soul Dostoyevski-should have been pondering of the final problem rather than merely wishing to describe explicit cases.
