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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work loi
cially destructive abuses will go on from gen-
eration to generation. Mankind remains the
same though its acts may take different shapes.
Thinkers will always find new ideas, scholars
new methods and systems, artists new aesthetic
creations, but on the whole everything must
remain the same. Only when woman heeds the
message which life proclaims to her, that,
through her, salvation must come—will the face
of the earth be renewed. Oratorical talk of
the high task of mothers and of the great pro-
fession of education are empty phrases, un-
til we see that the possibility of humanity and
civilisation winning some day the victory over
savagery depends on the physiological and
psychological transformation of man’s nature.
This transformation requires an entirely new
conception of the vocation of mother, a tre-
mendous effort of will, continuous inspiration.
Those who believe they can fulfil their duties
as mothers and at the same time can accom-
plish other valuable work have never made
the experiment of education. The long con-
tinued habit of alternately caressing and strik-
ing one’s children is not education. It needs
tremendous power to do one’s duty to a single
child. This by no means signifies giving up
to the child every hour of one’s time, but it
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