If the spirit of freedom becomes destructive it loses the essence of democracy. The true democrat says, "There is no one to whom I, in my humanity, will yield as to a superior"; but he also says, "there is no one among humanity whom I dare to despise or injure." Until that far-off day arrives when freedom exists everywhere alike for the strong or the weak, untainted by any spirit of intolerance, there must be safeguards to ensure order in the community. Until that day marriage, or the formal recognition of the human attachment, will be necessary, not only in order that the interests of the children may be safeguarded, but so that woman, who has neither in the East nor in the West that recognition which makes her socially as independent as her mate, and whose position in life from every point of view is consequently a more delicate one than his, shall not suffer unjustly.