turn them toward the straight

path. This is what makes us individualists, so that we lose confidence in one another; and this, upon my life, can be resisted only by an upbringing that relies on character more than on knowl-edge, and that believes in common work and in the melting away of self for the sake of the highest aim.

There is no salvation for us from this abnormal state unless we bring up the young to rely on themselves and to free themselves from the nightmare of conservatism. Here I believe in what Gibran said in his Prophet, addressing parents: Your children are not yours; they are the children of the future, which you do not behold. You may give them your affection and your love, but you cannot give them your thoughts. Do not try to make them like yourselves; rather try to be like them, for life is in continual progress.

(4) The participation of the Lebanese woman in public life does not in any way whatever constitute a danger to her domestic existence. I believe in the necessity of woman's monopolizing social-reform work; I believe in the necessity of her effective contribution to the building of the nation. Her participation in public work takes her away from the atmosphere of gossip, visits, and social rounds whose harms are beyond counting; it takes her away from shrinkage, restriction, and collapse. I believe in directing our home life toward simplicity and in easing our worldly demands, so that woman may be able to take part in the positive associations, organizations, and institutions, whatever their kind.

Best of all is for her to work in the field of social reform, and to monopolize this field if possible — leaving her banquets and her green table to join the few who fight prostitution, combat vagrancy, and work for the reform of the prisons.

From the depths of my heart I believe that the reform we seek cannot be achieved unless it comes at the hand of the cultured, conscious woman who feels her social responsibility.

(1) I do not deny that there is in Lebanon today a social-reform movement carried on by the Lebanese woman under the banner of the Lebanese Women's Union. We have heard her voice, since the dawn of the movement of emancipation, raised always in defense of the homeland's social interests. She has demanded the raising of woman's level, care for motherhood, the fight against prostitution and gambling, the reform of juvenile delinquents, and attention to public health; yet these appeals have borne no fruit, because woman has not obtained her rights in elections whereby she might carry these reforms of hers into effect. The most notable thing she has been able to do has been to call for the formation of charitable associations to establish a day nursery, another house for teaching, and a refuge for the aid of the poor and

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