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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 99
even to the most unusual forms of labour and
attempts to make a living. But for the sake
of women themselves, for the sake of children,
for the sake of society, I wish men as well as
women to think earnestly over the present
position of things. They will see that in the
near future, one of two things must be chosen.
Either there must be such a transformation
of the way in which modern society thinks and
works that the majority of women will be re-
stored to motherhood, or the disintegration of
the home and the substitution of general in-
stitutions will inevitably result. There is no
alternative.
Undoubtedly it required the whole egoistic
self-assertion of woman, all her efforts towards
individuality, her temporary separation from
home and from family, her independent efforts
to make a living to convince man and society
of the following truths: that woman is not
solely a sexual being, not solely dependent on
man, the home and the family, no matter in
what form these may exist. Only in this
way could woman fulfil her destiny as wife
and mother with really free choice. Only in
this way could she secure the right of being re-
garded as man’s intellectual equal in the field
of the home and the family, the recognition
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