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68 The Century of the Child
sophistical notion which perverts the whole
feminist movement. The idea is to free
woman from the limitations of nature. It in-
volves, too, the other sophistical notion with
which capitalistic society meets every demand
of protective legislation for men, women, or
children. Such legislation is said to be an in-
terference with the individual’s right of choice.
Every human being who is socially alive
is aware that this right to control one’s Hfe is
the emptiest phrase to describe reality in a so-
ciety built up on a capitalistic basis. It is
doubly empty where woman is concerned. I
have never heard a woman desire that woman
should fulfil military duties as an equivalent
for having civil rights like man. But this
would be the consequence of the argument that
woman should have no privileges on the
ground of her sex. The greatest privilege
that can be thought of in modern society is to
be spared the discomforts and loss of time
that come from military training, to be exempt
from the dangers and the terrors of war. That
women are not absolutely incapable of sendee
in warfare, women have shown on many occa-
sions, especially in the Boer War. So when
the advocates of women’s rights hesitate before
this extreme consequence of their principle, and
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