of the enslavement of man’s spirit to the production of material wealth.  Each man would be a member of a community of personalities, each of unique value, treating each other, not as means to their own particular selfish ends, but as ends in themselves.  At the same time it would involve the putting of the personality of the citizen in the foremost place in our social and political life, instead of a development of a purely class consciousness with its mischievous distinctions.

Articles have been written dealing with Bergson’s message to Feminism.  This point is not without its importance in our modern life.  It must be admitted that the present system of civilization with its scientific campaign of conquest of the material environment has been the work of man’s intellect.  In the ruder stages of existence women’s subordination to men may have been necessary and justifiable.  But in the development of society it has become increasingly less necessary, and humanity is now at a stage where the contributions of women to society are absolutely vital to its welfare and progress.  Woman is proverbially and rightly regarded as more intuitive than man.  This need not be taken to mean that, given the opportunity of intellectual development (until now practically denied to her), woman would not show as great ability in this direction as man.  But it is an undeniable fact that woman has kept more closely to the forces of the great life-principle, both by the fact that in her rests the creative power for the continuation of the human family and also by the fact that the development of the personalities of children has been her function.  The subjection in which women have been largely kept until now has not only hindered them from taking part in the work of society as a whole and from expressing their point of view, but has meant that many of them have little or no knowledge of their capacities and abilities in wider directions.  However, with their increasing realization of their own powers, with the granting of increased opportunities to them, and an adequate recognition of their personality side by side with that of men, achievements of supreme value for humanity as a whole may be expected from them.  In certain spheres they may be found much better adapted than are men to achieve a vision which will raise human life to a higher plane and give it greater worth.  More especially in the realms of ethical development, of social science, problems of sex, of war and peace, of child welfare, health, and education, of religion and philosophy we may hope to have valuable contributions from the more intuitive mind of woman.  “It is not in the fighting male of the race:  it is in Woman that we have the future centre of Power in civilization.” [Footnote:  Benjamin Kidd in The Science of Power, p. 195.  This is more fully shown in his chapters, Woman the Psychic Centre of Power in the Social Integration, and The Mind of Woman, pp. 192-257.] The wandering Dante required for his guidance not only the intellectual faculties of a Vergil but in addition the intuitive woman-soul of a Beatrice to lead him upward and on.