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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 103
tiated. The book showed that a mother who
wished to train her children and at the same
time engage in an occupation, or take part in
some public activity, could give to neither her
whole personality. The result is a mediocre
education for the children and for herself;
mediocre work done with a divided soul. This
is allowed to be true by all of those really
conscientious mothers who have maintained a
high aim in their work and in the bringing up
of their children. They are dilettantes in
both directions; what they do is half done
owing to the effort to unite two separate fields
of work.
From the point of view of women’s rights,
it is said, in reply to these opinions of mine, that
motherhood can be made infinitely easier by a
natural method of life, that work can be very
well combined with it. It is said that children
soon grow out of needing the protection of
their mother, that the mothers can then devote
themselves entirely to their work. They con-
tend besides that motherhood is no uncondi-
tional obligation; that people are fully justified
in making different individual arrangements;
one woman wishes to become a mother,
another not. The one gets married with the
hope of becoming a mother ; the other with the
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