for the salvation of their husbands, brothers, and children,--for the
salvation of all men!

Women of the wealthy classes who are mothers, the salvation of the
men of our world from the evils from which they are suffering, lies
in your hands.

Not those women who are occupied with their dainty figures, with
their bustles, their hair-dressing, and their attraction for men, and
who bear children against their will, with despair, and hand them
over to nurses; nor those who attend various courses of lectures, and
discourse of psychometric centres and differentiation, and who also
endeavor to escape bearing children, in order that it may not
interfere with their folly which they call culture: but those women
and mothers, who, possessing the power to refuse to bear children,
consciously and in a straightforward way submit to this eternal,
unchangeable law, knowing that the burden and the difficulty of such
submission is their appointed lot in life,--these are the women and
mothers of our wealthy classes, in whose hands, more than in those of
any one else, lies the salvation of the men of our sphere in society
from the miseries that oppress them.

Ye women and mothers who deliberately submit yourselves to the law of
God, you alone in our wretched, deformed circle, which has lost the
semblance of humanity, you alone know the whole of the real meaning
of life, according to the law of God; and you alone, by your example,
can demonstrate to people that happiness in life, in submission to
the will of God, of which they are depriving themselves. You alone
know those raptures and those joys which invade the whole being, that
bliss which is appointed for the man who does not depart from the law