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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 85
nation, so precious that society advances its
own highest well-being when it protects the
functions of the mother. These functions are
not limited to birth nor to the nourishment of
the child ; but they go on during the whole time
of its training. I believe that in the new so-
ciety where all women and men alike will be
compelled to work (not children, not invalids,
and not the aged) people will regard the ma-
ternal function as so important for the whole
social order, that every mother under fixed
conditions, subject to certain control, during
a certain period, and for a certain number of
children, will obtain from society an allowance
for education. She will receive this during
the time in which her children require all her
care, while she herself is freed from work out-
side the home. Naturally this does not ex-
clude the case of mothers who from one or
another reason cannot devote themselves to the
care and training of their children; they can
by their own productive work secure a sub-
stitute. But for the majority of women, the
proposal made above would undoubtedly be
the real solution of many problems which
now seem insoluble. I do not believe that
social development will maintain the old ideal
of the father as the one who takes care of the
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