Domineering egotism, the assertion of greedy possessive rights, are out of place in the modern home.

They are just as mischievous when exhibited by the wife as by the husband.

We have seen, as we look back, the futility in the end of the ancient structure of the home, however reasonable it was at the beginning, under our different modern social conditions, and for women to attempt nowadays to reintroduce the same structure, merely reversed would be not only mischievous but silly.

That spirit of narrow exclusiveness and self centred egoism--even if it were sometimes an _egoisme a deux_--evoked, half a century ago, the scathing sarcasm of James Hinton, who never wearied of denouncing the "virtuous and happy homes" which he saw as "floating blotches of verdure on a sea of filth." Such outbursts seem extravagant, but they were the extravagance of an idealist at the vision which, as a physician in touch with realities, he had, seen beneath the surface of the home.
It is well to insist on the organisation of the mechanical and material side of life.

Some leaders of women movements feel this so strongly that they insist on nothing else.