suffer conflict with the changed culture in which they will live as
adults. This error in the past generation is responsible for much of
the maladjustment in present-day women. There is no need of elimi-
nating from our own lives the values we have personally found worth
while, but it is dangerous to prescribe them dogmatically to the next
generation, leaving no intellectual transfer-ticket by which the young
may adjust their emotions to social changes.

Society is not changing all the time in all matters. There are posi-
tions of relative permanence and stability which can be held for long
periods with relative contentment. Once such a position is broken,
society must move on to the next position of stability. It cannot stop
between points. The conservative asks: "If we concede A, they will
demand B, if then we give them B, they will be stronger to demand
C; there is no limit to how far they will go." The answer of his-
torical experience is: "There is a limit; they will keep on going until
some new equilibrium is reached; there they will stop. That stopping
place is probably much farther than you would like, but not as far
as your extreme fears."

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