equivalence speaks of duality — that is, of divergence outwardly and alliance inwardly.

Let the distinguished woman of letters be reassured. My solicitude for the girl is no less than hers for the daughters of her sex. We men have become aware of the extent of woman's influence in social life. We are aware that man does not people the universe alone, neither in body nor in spirit; that civiliza-tion rests upon the shoulders of woman as much as it rests upon the shoulders of man; that the equality of the mim and the nun is among the truest of the immediate data of consciousness; and that the liberation of man begins with the liberation of woman.

But human freedom is bound by an order of nature which we must respect; otherwise our

freedom becomes an arbitrary act, and a wrecking of our human being. Freedom is not to do what we want, as we want. Freedom begins with the plan which nature draws for us. Freedom is that man realize his manhood, and that woman realize her womanhood. If man is feminized without right, and woman masculinized without

right, that is a suspension of nature's order, and an annulment of her reasoning rule. And I do not shrink from naming this departure from the design of real-ity "aping," for it is an outward imitation only.

Pray accept my highest respect.

Yours faithfully,