This is the doctrine of the Symposium; the scorn of merely sexual love is also Platonic.

IX FURTHER MISUNDERSTANDINGS: THE NEED FOR SEX CHIVALRY "Men venerated and even feared womenparticularly in their specifically sexual aspecteven while they bullied them; and even in corrupt and superstitious times, when the ideal of womanhood was lost sight of, women tended to get back as witches the spiritual eminence they had failed to retain as saints, matrons and saviours of society.

The theme of the perils of foster-motherhood is not new, but Mrs. MERRICK has treated it freshly and with a very decent avoidance of its strictly sexual aspects.