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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 71
women. The alarm, the aversion, becomes so
strong, so dominant in them that one might
almost believe it a dark perverse instinct,
which, like all unnatural instincts, has been
conceived and born through cruel necessities,
and through these necessities has become over-
mastering. It is as if a secret voice in the
depths of their nature was telling these women
that, by paying their tribute to their sex, they
would lose that power, brilliancy, and sharp-
ness of intellect by which they have elevated
themselves above their sex; and perhaps cer-
tain kinds of women are right in having this
fear.
I am convinced, just as the German writer
is, that eveiy actual phenomenon of disease
and of health alike is a necessary result from
given causes; and I am more convinced than
the advocates of women’s rights ever were,
that it is in the sphere of human freedom to
choose one’s own type of development, happi-
ness, or ruin. I am not inclined to say any-
thing further to the women who do not desire
motherhood.
It would be very disastrous if these women,
who have never been moved by tenderness when
they felt a soft childish hand in their own, who
have never longed to surrender themselves
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