Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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    lives to the holy office that many of them would choose ? Yes : many of them contrive to do so. But see at what sacrifice and cost ! and then think how many more are deterred from becoming mothers because, having learned a little worldly wisdom, they know they will be unable to do their duty by themselves and children. And let us ask ourselves : is it ; right, is it just, that the vocation of child- ' bearing should be denied to any woman—as it is in this Mammon-worshipping age ? I cannot delay to enter at greater length upon this subject, much as I am tempted to do so ; I can but draw attention to the matter. And having done so, I would ask whether, as it stands at present, the lot of the mother is not \ the vilest stain upon our civilisation ? As it ; is, the mother must inevitably suffer—and she i does. But the injury, alas ! does not stop there, j As the mother suffers, so must the offspring, i and which suffers more I do not pretend to ■ say. But the mother, through no fault of her 1 own, bears the blame as well. From time to time a good deal is said about
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