“The third dictum answers that.
“‘She must be free to form her own ideas and morals.’
“One would fancy from that that ‘woman’ was an animal capable of evolving ideas and a moral code different from man. Since woman is just the same human animal, we may put this aside, and ask again what the Feminist means.
“She asks, in fact, that women may be free to change their morals (we shall leave the talk about ideas aside for the present) in any way they please.
“Now, morals cannot be changed in a horizontal direction. It’s up, or down, or stationary. Any change in morals is for the better or for the worse.
“Does the Feminist ask for freedom to change her morals for the better? She has perfect freedom to do that; most men will applaud her, and most women, too.
“Does she ask for freedom to change her morals for the worse?
“If she is making that demand, let her frankly avow that what she wants is license, not freedom.
“There is a lot of difference between the two.