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lude on the part of the woman. Even the stoutest opponent of the demands and aspirations of the modern woman would find it dificult to bring ihat manifestly false charge against Indian womanhood. Besides, “bosulity buiween SCXOS" is a Score-crow. If there is any hostility, it is on the part of those very men who complain of the spirit. Being out of synipathy with the ideas and ideals of the modern woman, these cle-fashioned males are naturally hostile 10 juill. The car of hostility on the part of women, of a revolt of the angels, of a “war of revenge", reveals a bad con.
uce on the part of inen. Casiousness of the fact that women have been wronged for ages,
makes them apprehensive of the possible growth of it spirit of vungcance on the part of the former.
Mexlern women, lowever, are rebelling not gainst men, but against certain social codes and (conomic disabilities which place them under the domination of the malc. There is no sex-war. That is an absurd idea. There cannot be uy antaScrison between the sexes. Sex-impulse is a force ihat attracts. in scy-relation itself, there can never be any incquality, either party being cqually indisiicnsable. As a rule, women cannot do without men any more than the male can dispense with the female. Incquality is in the relation between inan and woman, as social units. The revolt of the modern woman is not a revolt of the female against the male ; it is a revolt of one category of 158
