That terrible word " I want" has taken flesh in woman, and therefore men, who are cowards, try with all their might to keep back this primeval flood With their earthen dykes.
For its purposes, any social regulation of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the sea dykes, and have no possible historical relation to that of our civilization.
Now it is calm and deep like a lake, but gradually its pressure will increase, the dykes will give way, and the force which has so long been dumb will rush forward with the roar: " I want" !