Nowhere does the modern God-fearing man come nearer to sacrilege than in his attitude toward the divine plan for renewing life.
A strange mixture of sincerity and hypocrisy, self-flagellation and lust, aspiration and superstition, has gone into the making of this attitude.

With the development of it we have nothing to do here.

What does concern us is the effect of this profanity on the Business of Being a Woman.
The central fact of the woman's life--Nature's reason for her--is the child, his bearing and rearing.

There is no escape from the divine order that her life must be built around this constraint, duty, or privilege, as she may please to consider it.

But from the beginning to the end of life she is never permitted to treat it naturally and frankly.