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 STIMULATING INFLUENCES

CIENCE and philanthropy should go hand in hand—two hearts that beat as one, if you know what I mean, and all that sort of thing.

And they do, too. We were discussing it the other evening—our Little Group of Serious Thinkers, you know—and we decided that what philanthropy owes to science is made up by what science owes to philanthropy.

Isn't it wonderful how things balance like that?

There's the Twilight Sleep and the Mother-Teacher Idea, for instance.

Our little group are thinking of starting a propaganda to urge all Teachers to be Mothers.

And, of course, a lot of them might object but along comes the Twilight Sleep and takes away all possible objections.

And along comes Philanthropy to put the Twilight Sleep within the reach of all—at least, we hope it will—and we're going to take the matter up with some of the Philanthropists right away.

Isn't it just simply wonderful how Modern Thought brings subjects like that together? [178]