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When Will Woman’s Mental Life Begin?
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In every great man’s life you hear some remark of this sort: “How can I work, Maria, if you let the children make such a noise?”
Well, how could the millions of Marias work with the children hanging to their skirts all through history? —-
But a better day is ahead for woman, and we are proud to point it out to her.
Wise men begin to wonder what we shall do when the earth is fully peopled? Shall we kill surplus babies, or what shall we do?
There will be no surplus babies. Nature will arrange that.
For every two human beings on earth two new ones will be born.
Wars will be ended. Common sense will have done away with the unnecessary illness which now robs millions of mothers.
No woman will have more than two children. Education will be understood. Women will not be slaves to their babies. They will be admired and thanked and made happy before the babies arrive –instead of being half ashamed, as at present.
The rearing of children will be simple. Each woman, instead of devoting twenty years of her life to child slavery, will have practically her whole life to devote to other things. She will be able to cultivate her mind. She will have more of a hold on Mr. Selfish Man, and he will have to pay more attention to her.
WOMAN’S hour of full mental development will arrive with the final and complete population of the globe, just as man’s day of real mental growth will come after he shall have mastered the forces of nature and learned the elements of true social science.
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Even then we do not anticipate that repulsive “equality” between men and women which is so much prated about.
The complete human being is not A MAN, nor is it A WOMAN. The COMPLETE human being is a man AND a woman. The TWO MAKE ONE. Each will contribute a share to the perfection of the whole. That was the way it was planned from the beginning, and we think we could prove it, if this column were six feet longer.