Of women, therefore, he knew little; of their needs less.

Nor had he the slightest desire, even as an editor, to know them better or to seek to understand them.

Even at that age, he knew that, as a man, he could not, no matter what effort he might make, and he let it go at that.
What he saw in the position was not the need to know women; he could employ women for that purpose.

He perceived clearly that the editor of a magazine was largely an executive: his was principally the work of direction; of studying currents and movements, watching their formation, their tendency, their efficacy if advocated or translated into actuality, and then selecting from the horizon those that were for the best interests of the home.

For a home was something which Edward Bok did understand.