is required is, to return to that, and this question cannot exist.
Woman, having her own inevitable task, will never demand the right to
share the toil of men in the mines and in the fields. She could only
demand to share in the fictitious labors of the men of the wealthy
classes.

The woman of our circle has been, and still is, stronger than the
man, not by virtue of her fascinations, not through her cleverness in
performing the same pharisaical semblance of work as man, but because
she has not stepped out from under the law that she should undergo
that real labor, with danger to her life, with exertion to the last
degree, from which the man of the wealthy classes has excused
herself.

But, within my memory, a departure from this law on the part of
woman, that is to say, her fall, has begun; and, within my memory, it
has become more and more the case. Woman, having lost the law, has
acquired the belief that her strength lies in the witchery of her
charms, or in her skill in pharisaical pretences at intellectual
work. And both things are bad for the children. And, within my
memory, women of the wealthy classes have come to refuse to bear
children. And so mothers who hold the power in their hands let it
escape them, in order to make way for the dissolute women, and to put
themselves on a level with them. The evil is already wide-spread,
and is extending farther and farther every day; and soon it will lay
hold on all the women of the wealthy classes, and then they will
compare themselves with men: and in company with them, they will
lose the rational meaning of life. But there is still time.

If women would but comprehend their destiny, their power, and use it