difference, yet I am certain that women understand men far better than men understand women.  The whole range of motives is strangely different, and men can never grasp the comparative unimportance with which women regard the question of occupation.  Occupation is for men a definite and isolated part of life, a thing important and absorbing in itself, quite apart from any motives or reasons.  To do something, to make something, to produce something—­that desire is always there, whatever ebb and flow of emotions there may be; it is an end in itself with men, and with many women it is not so; for women mostly regard work as a necessity, but not an interesting necessity.  In a woman’s occupation, there is generally someone at the end of it, for whom and in connection with whom it is done.  This is probably largely the result of training and tradition, and great changes are now going on in the direction of women finding occupations for themselves.  But take the case of such a profession as teaching; it is quite possible for a man to be an effective and competent teacher, without feeling any particular interest in the temperaments of his pupils, except in so far as they react upon the work to be done.  But a woman can hardly take this impersonal attitude; and this makes women both more and less effective, because human beings invariably prefer to be dealt with dispassionately; and this is as a rule more difficult for women; and thus in a complicated matter affecting conduct, a woman as a rule forms a sounder judgment on what has actually occurred than a man, and is perhaps more likely to take a severe view.  The attitude of a Galileo is often a useful one for a teacher, because boys and girls ought in matters that concern themselves to learn how to govern themselves.

Thus in situations involving relation with others women are more liable to feel anxiety and the pressure of personal responsibility; and the question is to what extent this ought to be indulged, in what degree men and women ought to assume the direction of other lives, and whether it is wholesome for the director to allow a desire for personal dominance to be substituted for more spontaneous motives.

It very often happens that the temperaments which most claim help and support are actuated by the egotistical desire to find themselves interesting to others, while those who willingly assume the direction of other lives are attracted more by the sense of power than by genuine sympathy.

But it is clear that it is in the region of our affections that the greatest risks of all have to be run.  By loving, we render ourselves liable to the darkest and heaviest fears.  Yet here, I believe, we ought to have no doubt at all; and the man who says to himself, “I should like to bestow my affection on this person and on that, but I will keep it in restraint, because I am afraid of the suffering which it may entail,”—­such a man, I say, is very far from the kingdom of God.  Because love is