this toil you will also prepare your children.

Only that mother who looks upon children as a disagreeable accident,
and upon love, the comforts of life, costume, and society, as the
object of life, will rear her children in such a manner that they
shall have as much enjoyment as possible out of life, and that they
shall make the greatest possible use of it; only she will feed them
luxuriously, deck them out, amuse them artificially; only she will
teach them, not that which will fit them for self-sacrificing
masculine or feminine labor with danger of their lives, and to the
last limits of endurance, but that which will deliver them from this
labor. Only such a woman, who has lost the meaning of her life, will
sympathize with that delusive and false male labor, by means of which
her husband, having rid himself of the obligations of a man, is
enabled to enjoy, in her company, the work of others. Only such a
woman will choose a similar man for the husband of her daughter, and
will estimate men, not by what they are personally, but by that which
is connected with them,--position, money, or their ability to take
advantage of the labor of others.

But the true mother, who actually knows the will of God, will fit her
children to fulfil it also. For such a mother, to see her child
overfed, enervated, decked out, will mean suffering; for all this, as
she well knows, will render difficult for him the fulfilment of the
law of God in which she has instructed him. Such a mother will
teach, not that which will enable her son and her daughter to rid
themselves of labor, but that which will help them to endure the
toils of life. She will have no need to inquire what she shall teach
her children, for what she shall prepare them. Such a woman will not
only not encourage her husband to false and delusive labor, which has