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88 The Century of the Child
the life energy, taken directly or indirectly
from the new generation by women working
outside the home.
^ There are some people who expect the prob-
lem of domestic life to be solved by collective
institutions which will take care of the child-
ren, and give them meals. Just as brewing,
baking, slaughtering, making candles and
clothes, have more and more ceased to be done
in the home, much of the work which now ab-
sorbs the greatest part of household activity,
cooking, washing, mending and cleaning
clothes, will, I firmly believe, finally be done
by collective effort, by the help of electricity
and machines. But I hope the tendency of
man towards individualisation will overcome
the tendency towards impersonal, uniform ap-
plication of power en masse, in everything by
which the innermost relations of life and pri-
vate habits are deeply affected. A strong
family life will, I hope, be regarded as the
basis for true happiness and for the develop-
ment of personality. When women are free
from the barbarous relics of present methods of
housekeeping,—the market basket, the kitchen
utensils, the scrubbing brush gone from every
house, electricity everywhere spreading warmth
and life,—^they will still be forced to do a cer-
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