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96 The Century of the Child
most cases she will really rejoice at the pos-
sibility offered to her by society of working
for society, as a mother and an educator.
We are yet very far from such a society, but
every social regulation should, as we have said,
be tested as to whether it brings us nearer this
ideal or leads us farther away from it. The
question should be asked whether the direc-
tion of thought is encouraged or restricted,
that will in the end transform everything, the
conviction I mean that economic production
is here in the world for the sake of men, not, as
now, men for the sake of production; that
work is to be done for the sake of freedom, not,
as now, freedom created for the sake of work.
When I tried in my book called The Mis-
use of the Power of Woman to urge women
to test the consequences of this process, my
thesis was as follows: In our programme of
civilisation, we must start out with the convic-
tion that motherhood is something essential to
the nature of woman and the way in which she
carries out this profession is of value for so-
ciety. On this basis we must alter the condi-
tions which more and more are robbing woman
of the happiness of motherhood and are rob-
bing children of the care of a mother. Or, we
must begin with the assumption that mother-
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