"Let me answer that," said Martin. "Woman in the home or out of it, is only one manifestation of our social rebirth. In a world of environment changing hourly, the individual must change hourly, too, or lose his social value. Now, the real tragedy of modern life is not that woman is changing more rapidly than man, but that in our confusion, it is the most advanced type of woman who marries the most antiquated type of man, or vice versa. Ages of social evolution may lie between them."
"There you are, Jane; he has put our problem in a nutshell. You have married the most antiquated type of man," laughed Jerry.
"What does it matter whether men do this better, and women do that better? The thing is to add to the general store of wisdom of the race; we all have to pour in our share. A hundred years from now it will look as if each contributed about equal amounts, won't it?" asked Bobs.
"What about this enmity between men and women?" Jerry asked.
"Men don't want us to get their jobs. They won't see the true situation, and they blame us," Bobs answered; "that makes enmity."
"And women are superior, satirical, mad at us," he retorted.
"But you want to marry us, in spite of it, Jerry, so nothing interferes with our 'sacred function,' as you call it," Bobs laughed.
"There cannot be sex war, Paxton. That need is the very ground work of life. The mating instinct is not affected by a change of labour for either sex. Mother Nature sees to that," Martin said.
"The gist of all you are saying is, that we need a new kind of marriage, a new kind of family, a new kind of parents, and a new kind of man. We've got the new kind of woman."
"We've got the new man. Why, Jerry, you're one of them," said Jane.