ATURE does not seem to have expected man to get more than a primitive living. She has not changed Her methods at all.
Man has changed. He makes and directs machinery that earns for one man what fifty men can earn; so that one man is fifty times richer than a primitive man.
Nature uses no machinery.
It takes more than twenty years of the mother’s time to develop one citizen. There are no short cuts nor quick methods in woman’s special work.
The mother of a large family has given twenty-five of the best years of her life to the work which none but her can do.
She has given to the state citizens.
This has cost her all her strength, all her time and the ambitions of a quarter of a century.
As our present civilization is, she has given her economic independence, her individual ambitions.
She pays dearly for the privilege of being mother to citizens. She is dependent upon one man for the maintenance of both herself and her children.