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loo The Century of the Child
that in her way she was just as complete
a being as he.
But it is clear that this fragment of feminine
egoism must have a further consequence.
With the rights of sex the feeling of solidar-
ity must be awakened. The woman must see
that her emancipated and developed human
personality will lead to this solidarity by the
realisation of her especial vocation as woman.
Women in parliament and in journalism, their
representation in the local and general govern-
ment, in peace congress and in workingmen’s
meetings, science and literature, all this will
produce small results until women realise that
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the transformation of society begins with the
unborn child, with the conditions for its coming
into existence, its physical and psychical train-
ing. It must be the general conviction that
the new instincts, the new feelings, the new
thoughts, the new ideas, which mothers and
fathers pass on into the flesh and blood of their
^ children, will transform existence. When, af-
ter many successive generations, the new spirit-
ual kingdom of this world has arisen, there will
come into being these greater ideas through
which life may be renewed.
Until that time secular misdeeds, political
injustice, economic struggles,—all these so-
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