The most important question of this age is the establishment of Universal Peace. Since 1888 an International Council of Women, representing 42 countries and 36,000,000 women, has been meeting, once every five years to promote unity and mutual understanding between all associations of women, working for the common welfare of humanity. Its watchwords are peace, co-operation and progress.

To him who considers man superior to woman, Professor Burton, late President of the Minnesota and Wisconsin Universities said, “Both male and female elements are to be found in all people—the predominance of one determining the sex. The difference between men and women is not a question of inferiority or superiority, but a difference in kind and function.”

Gertrude Atherton in the Yale Review says, “Man and woman are one being split in two, differently sexed for the benefit of the race. Men and women are made up of the same ingredients. The preponderance of good or bad, weakness or strength, is in the individual not the sex.”

An author in the Living Age says, What women lack in weight and muscular power they make up in assiduity, conscientiousness and keen endeavor.”

‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Center of a world wide movement to establish universal peace, said that this is the age of woman and that there is not a position held at any time by man, that certain women will not occupy.

At this point I see some scholarly gentlemen, who still have their noses buried in the musty emptiness of the past, shake emphatic objection. The monster called Sex-Antagonism has raised his head and must perforce be recognized.

I looked the fellow straight in the eye and am surprised to discover that he has a goodly countenance. He whom I have suspected of being a destroyer smiles benignly, and before I can analyze the thrill of pleasure that permeates my being he begins to speak, “I am that force which awakens in all men and women the consciousnes of a better self. It is I who stimulates undeveloped talent into activity. It is I who promotes true happiness, harmony and co-operation. It is I who helps to fulfill the plan of creation. I am called “Sex-Antagonism,” I should be named “Competition in Self-expression.” Sex-Antagonism is the seen and unseen conflict which exists between the sexes for supremacy and self-expression.

“When man was a barbarian and woman was his slave, the qualities of the better self found very feeble expression.”

This brings to my mind an idea obtained from Vance Thompson in his book, “Woman.” Thompson finds the explanation of the modern feminist movement in the sex-specialization man has imposed upon woman. He says that for ages man has insisted that woman be a “female being” rather than a “human being.”

The voice of Sex-Antagonism interrupts my train of thought, “Today civilization has advanced. The feminist movement has demonstrated that the feminine is the equal and complement of the masculine element of humanity.”

A quotation from W. L. George in “Woman and Tomorrow” is reflected on the mirror of my mind. Mr. George says, “Feminism is broadly the furthering of the interests of women, philosophically the leveling of the sexes, and specifically the social and political emancipation of woman.”