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CHAPTER II
THE UNBORN RACE AND WOMAN’s WORK
There are few factors in the life of the
present in which the dualism between theory
and practice is greater and more unconscious
than in questions concerning woman. The
protagonists of the feminist movement are in
many cases sturdily Christian. They protest
with vigour against the idea that they could
have any share in the sort of emancipation of
personality that includes freedom for all the
powers and activities of the personality. In-
dividualism, and the assertion of self are for
them degrading words with a sinful signifi-
cance. That the emancipation of women is
practically the greatest egoistic movement of
the nineteenth century, and the most intense
affirmation of the right of the self that history
has yet seen, they have no suspicion. Free-
dom for the powers and the personality of
woman have never appeared to them except
as an ideal struggle for justice, as a noble
victory to be won. In its deepest meaning
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