There are many that demand imperatively some adjustments in inner comradeship and in mechanical arrangements surrounding the household, in order to hold firm its spiritual values during changes in social conditions.

How far these changes of detail may go or what will be the end of some present clearly outlined tendencies no one can prophesy.

The duty of the hour is, however, to set this treasure of social inheritance in a clear light; to show its actual and potential social value as at present perceived; and to try by all simple measures open to our intelligence to aid in its evolution toward a more perfect expression of the love of man and woman each for the other and of the protection and care of both for the children of that love.

The basic test of all proposed changes in any inherited institution is from henceforward, we must believe, that which inheres in the spiritual essence of democracy.

What is that essence of democracy which must be applied as test within the family, as within the state and within the industrial order?
It is the fundamental belief in the worth and dignity of every human being and the equal right of each and all to personality.