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I04 The Century of the Child
resolution of avoiding maternity. The third
does not marry at all. Attempts to generalise
on this matter in which individual freedom has
every right to be recognised, they consider re-
actionary. Full freedom for the woman, mar-
ried or unmarried, to choose her work and to
continue it ; full freedom to choose motherhood
or to do without it, this they say is the way to
free woman, this is the line of progress. Here
woman is subject to that economic law which
has made it necessary for her to work for her
own living. Just as woman’s household work
has been superseded by factory work, so too,
they say, will the maternal obligations of
woman be fulfilled collectively, and the difficul-
ties on which the so-called reactionary mem-
bers of the women’s rights movement base
their arguments, will in the future only arise
in exceptional cases. As regards these argu-
ments, I have already shown that I recognise
fully the right of the feminine individual to
go her own way, to choose her own fortune or
misfortune. I have always spoken of women
collectively and of society collectively.
From this general, not from the individual
standpoint, I am trying to convince women
that vengeance is being exacted on the individ-
ual, on the race, when woman gradually de-
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