Doubtless our English homes are more at fault here than in America; but, as a mother's pride in her boys is the same all over the world, may not even American homes admit of a little improvement in this respect as well?
And, if we choose to bring up our boys to look upon their mothers and sisters as more or less the devoted slaves of their selfishness, can we wonder that they should grow up to look upon all women as more or less the slaves of their needs, fleshly or otherwise?
Now, what I want all boys taught from their earliest years is, roughly speaking, that boys came into the world to take care of girls.

Whatever modification may take place in our view of the relation of the sexes, Nature's great fact will remain, that the man is the stronger--a difference which civilization and culture seem to strengthen rather than diminish; and from his earliest years he ought to be taught that he, therefore, is the one that has to serve.

It is the strong that have to bear the burden of the weaker, and not to prostitute that strength by using it to master the weaker into bearing their loads.

It is the man who has to give himself for the woman, not the other way on, as we have made it.

Nay, this is no theory of mine; it is a truth implanted in the very heart of every true man.