Women can attain freedom only by concrete, definite
knowledge of themselves, a knowledge based on biology, physiology and
psychology.
Nevertheless it would be wrong to shut our eyes to the vision of a
world of free men and women, a world which would more closely resemble
a garden than the present jungle of chaotic conflicts and fears. One of
the greatest dangers of social idealists, to all of us who hope to make
a better world, is to seek refuge in highly colored fantasies of the
future rather than to face and combat the bitter and evil realities
which to-day on all sides confront us. I believe that the reader of
my preceding chapters will not accuse me of shirking these realities;
indeed, he may think that I have overemphasized the great biological
problems of defect, delinquency and bad breeding. It is in the hope that
others too may glimpse my vision of a world regenerated that I submit
the following suggestions. They are based on the belief that we must
seek individual and racial health not by great political or social
reconstruction, but, turning to a recognition of our own inherent powers
and development, by the release of our inner energies. It is thus that
all of us can best aid in making of this world, instead of a vale of
tears, a garden.
Let us first of all consider merely from the viewpoint of business and
"efficiency" the biological or racial problems which confront us.
As Americans, we have of late made much of "efficiency" and business
organization.
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