It has made what we call the 'new woman'-- that noxious flower on the stalk of scientific materialism." He turned and wrote this phrase rapidly on a pad at his elbow, while Aunt Bell waited expectantly for more.
"There's a sermon that writes itself, Aunt Bell.

'Woman's deterioration under Modern Infidelity to God.' As truly as you live, this thing called the 'new woman' has grown up side by side with the thing called the higher criticism.

And it's natural.

Take away God's word as revealed in the Scriptures and you make woman a law unto herself.

Man's state is then wretched enough, but contemplate woman's! Having put aside Christ's authority, she naturally puts aside _man's_, hence we have the creature who mannishly desires the suffrage and attends club meetings and argues, and has views--_views_, Aunt Bell, on the questions of the day--the woman who, as you have just succinctly said of your niece, 'believes she has a right to please herself!' There is the keynote of the modern divorce evil, Aunt Bell--she has a right to please herself.