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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 95
the reasons I have given above. I have ap-
plied to such work the objection formulated
by Feuerbach in these words :
" Mediocrity al-
ways weighs correctly, only its weight is
false."
Wherever we look, in Europe or America,
we find new and injurious results from the new
conditions, from the free activity of women’s
work through the development of industry on
a large scale, through the transformation of
home work, and the growing conviction on the
part of women that " celibacy is the aristo-
cracy of the future," to quote the words of a
distinguished supporter of woman’s rights.
Yet it would be foolish to wish a change in
these unhappy results through a reaction that
would again rob the woman of her essential
freedom in relation to her choice of work, and
the control of her life.
The line of progress is tending towards a
new society, where all will be compelled to
work and all will find work; where all will
work moderately under healthy conditions for
an adequate wage. Then neither the unmar-
ried nor the married woman will lose her
strength by exhausting work done to earn a
living, or impair the powers she needs for
motherhood. If she becomes a mother, in
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