but one object, that of using the labors of others; but she will bear
herself with disgust and horror towards such an employment, which
serves as a double temptation to her children. Such a woman will not
choose a husband for her daughter on account of the whiteness of his
hands and the refinement of manner; but, well aware that labor and
deceit will exist always and everywhere, she will, beginning with her
husband, respect and value in men, and will require from them, real
labor, with expenditure and risk of life, and she will despise that
deceptive labor which has for its object the ridding one's self of
all true toil.

Such a mother, who brings forth children and nurses them, and will
herself, rather than any other, feed her offspring and prepare their
food, and sew, and wash, and teach her children, and sleep and talk
with them, because in this she grounds the business of her life,--
only such a mother will not seek for her children external guaranties
in the form of her husband's money, and the children's diplomas; but
she will rear them to that same capacity for the self-sacrificing
fulfilment of the will of God which she is conscious of herself
possessing,--a capacity for enduring toil with expenditure and risk
of life,--because she knows that in this lies the sole guaranty, and
the only well-being in life. Such a mother will not ask other people
what she ought to do; she will know every thing, and will fear
nothing.

If there can exist any doubt for the man and for the childless woman,
as to the path in which the fulfilment of the will of God lies, this
path is firmly and clearly defined for the woman who is a mother; and
if she has complied with it in submissiveness and in simplicity of
spirit, she, standing on that loftiest height of bliss which the