Old positions are becoming untenable, with the higher position and culture of women.

It is becoming an impossibility for intelligent women with a knowledge of physiology and an added sense of their own dignity to accept the lower moral standard for men, which exposes them to the risk of exchanging monogamy for a peculiarly vile polygamy--polygamy with its sensuality, but without its duties--bringing physical risks to their children and the terrible likelihood of an inherited moral taint to their sons.

It is an impossibility, now that mothers know, that they should remain indifferent as to what sort of manhood they send out into the world--the so-called manhood that either makes and maintains the miserable sinner of our streets or is content to give a tainted name to the mother of his child, or the true manhood lifted into God, whose marriage is the type of the eternal union of God and the soul, of Christ and the Church, and whose fatherhood claims kinship with the Father of lights.

It is impossible for women who are agitating for the enfranchisement of their sex to accept as a necessary class in the midst of a democratical society a class of citizens who, in Dr.Welldon's[42] words, addressed to the University of Cambridge, "have lost once for all time the rights of citizenship--who are nobody's wives, nobody's sisters, nobody's friends, who live a living death in the world of men.
There are one hundred and fifty thousand such citizens,--perhaps far more, in England and Wales--_and all are women_." These old positions are simply impossible, each a moral _reductio ad absurdam_.

We must institute a new and higher order.