"' 'A man, he observed, should begin to write soon; for, if he waits till his judgement is matured, his inability, through want of practice to express his conceptions, will make the disproportion so great between what he sees, and what he can attain, that he will probably be discouraged from writing at all.

Hence there was a great disproportion of the slain in battle between peasants and their mounted masters.

It is not the size of a church which prevents the speaker from being heard,it is the disproportion of height with breadth and length, and the echoes produced by arcades.

The authority of the English monarch was much more extensive within his kingdom, and the disproportion much greater between him and the most powerful of his vassals.

This he puts together so untowardly, that you may perceive his own wit has the rickets by the swelling disproportion of the joints.

It is no doubt pervaded by a disproportion between the trivial and often bungled contents and the comparatively finished form; but the real significance of this poetry lay precisely in its formal features, especially those of language and metre.

Because, as we have already pointed out in this chapter, the release of feminine energy upon which the feminist problem depends is twofold, being due not only to the increased unmarriedness of women through the disproportion of the sexes and the rise in the age of marriage, but also to the decreased absorption of married women in domestic duties.

They were probably not extremely beautiful, at least there was no such disproportion in the attractions of the external form between the female and male sex among the Greeks, as exists among the modern Europeans.

In general, any disproportion between the will and intellectthat is to say, any deviation from the normal proportion referred totends to make a man unhappy; and the same thing happens when the disproportion is reversed.

In general, any disproportion between the will and intellectthat is to say, any deviation from the normal proportion referred totends to make a man unhappy; and the same thing happens when the disproportion is reversed.

CONTENTS I.THE OLD PROBLEM INTENSIFIED BY THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES II.A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE UNMARRIED III.CONSIDERATION OF OTHER SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES IV.THE TRUE BASIS OF MORALITY V.THE

CONTENTS I.THE OLD PROBLEM INTENSIFIED BY THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES II.A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE UNMARRIED III.CONSIDERATION OF OTHER SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES IV.THE TRUE BASIS OF MORALITY V.THE

THE NEED FOR SEX CHIVALRY X."THE SIN OF THE BRIDEGROOM" XI.COMMON-SENSE AND DIVORCE LAW REFORM I THE OLD PROBLEM INTENSIFIED BY THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES "There has arisen in society, a figure which is certainly the most mournful, and in some respects the most awful, upon which the eye of the moralist can dwell.

And in this country, whereas there was a disproportion of something like a million more women than men before the war broke out, there is now a disproportion of about one and three-quarter millions.

And in this country, whereas there was a disproportion of something like a million more women than men before the war broke out, there is now a disproportion of about one and three-quarter millions.

Now I want to add that this disproportion of the sexes is quite artificial, and, therefore, should be temporary.

From some of the letters I have received I gather that people imagine that there has always been a very much larger number of women than men, and not only in this country, but throughout the world; and that, therefore, we ought to shape our customs and our moral standards with this disproportion in mind as a permanent fact.

Again, we have a very large empire, stretching out to the remoter parts of the world, and to that empire men go out in very much larger numbers than women, so that the disproportion here is, in part, the reverse side of the disproportion in the great Overseas Dominions, where there are more men than women.

Again, we have a very large empire, stretching out to the remoter parts of the world, and to that empire men go out in very much larger numbers than women, so that the disproportion here is, in part, the reverse side of the disproportion in the great Overseas Dominions, where there are more men than women.

Polygamy is not possible and never has been possible on a great scale, because in hardly any country, certainly not in the world as a whole, is there a great disproportion of the sexes under ordinary circumstances.

I do think that this is a solution which would ease the situation to some extent, and in a normal and right way, because the disproportion in the Overseas Dominions, where the balance is the other way, and there are more men than women, is every whit as unwholesome and as disastrous as is the disproportion of women in this country.

I do think that this is a solution which would ease the situation to some extent, and in a normal and right way, because the disproportion in the Overseas Dominions, where the balance is the other way, and there are more men than women, is every whit as unwholesome and as disastrous as is the disproportion of women in this country.

III CONSIDERATION OF OTHER SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES "My spirit's bark is driven Far from the shore, far from the trembling throng Whose sails were never to the tempest given.

" Let us now move away from that aspect of the moral problem which has concerned us hithertothat of the difficulties created by the disproportion of the sexes at this time and in this countryand consider the problem as it presents itself under more normal conditions.

When such scientific triflers do find a woman worth loving, they are too deeply sensible of the fact not to be stirred to their depths; and their depths are apt to be in large disproportion to the lightness of their ordinary mood.