If you hear bad news you feel the effect on your heart; sometimes
you fall unconscious. That is because the brain sensation is so
strong as to interfere with the heart's action. You feel the
shock that the brain sends to the heart. ----
The idea that cultivation of the mind interferes with a woman's
moral, sentimental, or motherly qualities is foolish twaddle.
The idea that mere sentiment, ignorant, vague affection are
sufficient without education to make a first-class human mother
is false and feeble.
Have you ever seen a cow follow the wagon that carries her calf
to the butcher shop? It is a very sad sight, the plaintive
lowing of the poor mother as she follows behind begging for
her child to be restored. Every farmer knows that there is no
necessity for hitching the cow to the wagon when her calf is
inside. She will follow that calf until she drops.
There is your loving, devoted mother without education. The
cow's heart, to use the old expression, is all right. Her mental
equipment is perfectly suited to a cow. Nature and society
require that she should give the utmost love to her calf this
year, and give all of that same love to another calf next year.
Bring back in three months that calf that she follows now with
such pitiful appeals.
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