CHAPTER XI

THE END OF THE INQUIRY

The future of Woman--Indications of progress--The re-birth of woman--Woman learning to believe in herself--The sin of sterility--The waste of womanhood--The change in woman's outlook--The quickening of the social conscience--A criticism of militancy--It does not correspond with the ideal for women--The new free relationship of the sexes--The conditions which make this possible--The recognition of love as the spiritual force in life--The importance of woman's freedom to the vital advance of humanity--The end brings us back to the beginning--The supreme importance of Motherhood--Woman the guardian of the Race-life and the Race-soul--This the ground of her claim for freedom.

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