Our ideal has taught us to be _so_ loving and _so_ submissive and _so_ yielding in our sympathy, that the mode has become automatic in many men.

Now in what we will call the "natural" mode, man has his positivity in the volitional centers, and women in the sympathetic.

In fulfilling the Christian love ideal, however, men have reversed this.
Man has assumed the gentle, all-sympathetic role, and woman has become the energetic party, with the authority in her hands.

The male is the sensitive, sympathetic nature, the woman the active, effective, authoritative.

So that the male acts as the passive, or recipient pole of attraction, the female as the active, positive, exertive pole, in human relations.