Thus far she has put on earth fourteen
hundred millions of her own kind. Quite an achievement, we
should say, when the career of a Napoleon or an Alexander called
for a couple of million of men extra, or a plague like the
black death, due to man's stupid lack of cleanliness, wiped out
two-thirds of Europe's people. ----
Men were the material workers--of course they exceeded in
material achievement the women nursing babies at home.
But woman, caring for her children, sacrificing her life for
them, developed on earth the moral sentiments, started each
generation on its career a little better than its predecessor.
She could not do all this and do the material things as well. In
fact, she could not even THINK except on matters very near to
her cradle, or her affections.
Remember that throughout the world's history it has been the lot
of a vast majority of women to be constantly caring for young
infants, or young children. Families of twenty children, or even
more, have been common. It is probable that woman from the
beginning of our racial existence until now has been the mother
of from fifteen to twenty-five children on an average.
The dullest mind can see what that means.
Atrocious suffering. Endless worry about the children. Constant
warfare against the man's selfish brutality.
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