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I02 The Century of the Child
does mean that our soul is to be filled by the
child, just as the man of science is possessed
by his investigations and the artist by his work.
The child should be in one’s thoughts when one
is sitting at home or walking along the road,
when one is lying down or when one is stand-
ing up. This devotion, much more than the
hours immediately given to one’s children, is
the absorbing thing; the occupation which
makes an earnest mother always go to any ex-
ternal activity with divided soul and dissipated
energj’-. Therefore the mother, if she gives her
children the share they need, can devote to
social activities only her occasional attention.
And for the same reason she should be entirely
free from working to earn her living during
the most critical years of the children’s
training.
Neither in the upper nor in the lower classes,
have I ever heard of any mother forced to do
work of this kind or one engaged in artistic
productions through the stimulus of her tal-
ents, who was able to satisfy her children in
the period when they were growing up.
Adele Gerhard and Helen Simon under the
title of Motherhood and Intellectual Work
published a very interesting investigation in
which I found my own observations substan-
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