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64 The Century of the Child
this is as true of every other effort at self-
affirmation, the end of which is the recog-
nition of the right of human personality to
the full development of capacities in a sphere
of freedom, where responsibility belongs to
the self alone. But just as every other such
affirmation of the individual self, of a class,
of a race, easily falls into an unjustifiable
egoism, so with the emancipation of woman.
This great, deep, serious movement for
woman’s emancipation has in the course of
time received a new name, the " Woman Ques-
tion." The change in terminology signifies a
change in the attitude of thought. From a
real emancipation movement, that is, a move-
ment to free the restricted powers of woman
and her restricted personahty, the movement
has become a question, a social institution
with officers, a church system with dogmas.
Certainly we still hear in books and speeches
that the woman question is being discussed
and urged, in its relation to the happiness
and development of the whole of humanity.
But in reality the woman question, since it
became a fact, a cause with an end of its
own, since its champions have lost more and
more their appreciation of its connection with
other great questions of the day, is tending
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