In all periods of the progress of the race, war had brought out this instinct in women--to give themselves for the future.

It was a provision of nature, inscrutable and terrible.

How immeasurable the distance between Mel Iden and those women who practised birth control! As the war had brought out hideous greed and baseness, so had it propelled forward and upward the noblest attributes of life.

Mel Iden was a builder, not a destroyer.

She had been sexless and selfless.