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82 The Century of the Child
life and of work worthy of mankind,—
a
healthier, stronger, and more beautiful race.
In this ever continuing progress every part
is related to every other part.
Unorganised, ordinary and therefore badly
paid work, done by woman, diminishes the
wages of man and his opportunity of work.
Work in a factory unfits the woman for the
conduct of the household, for her duties as a
mother. In the turmoil, heat, and rush of the
factory her nerves are destroyed and with them
her finer emotions. The woman loses not only
the right hand, but also the right heart for
family life. Badly conditioned women make
marriage more difficult for the man; through
celibacy, his mortality is increased. Low
wages, or times of lack of employment, cause
bad dwellings, bad clothes, and bad nourish-
ment. The tortured or ill-conditioned woman
is not able to prepare anything good with the
small amount of money which the man may
earn. From all of this come intemperance
and disease. Through these causes, com-
bined with those already noted, the population
of factory districts degenerates, in repub-
lican Switzerland, not less than in absolutistic
Russia.
It is true that such limitations of work in
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