The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water supply, she would promote the comfort and well- being of those who were dependent upon her guarding care. Such studies might advantageously form part of a training which would infinitely promote the health, prosperity and right development of the community. They would convert a great body of more or less use- less women into most valuable workers. That some change in occupation and training is necessary there can be no doubt. And the well-known restlessness, dissatisfaction and discontent of modern women is one proof of it. An increasing number of them complain continually of seeing no object in life, of having noth- ing to work for, of having no goal by which to guide their ways. Unquestionably a reason for this is the fact that the old ideas are passing away. There is a common consciousness that old-time methods may be made better, that women are as susceptible of im- provement in their ways as men are. They have felt and are feeling more acutely than ever the controlling spirit of the time which is revolutionary, iconoclastic, sceptical of rule-of-thumb methods by which our ances- tors were guided. One can easily imagine why it is that the large body of women are striving for normal activity, are trying to secure by any manner of means a release from an environment which makes them in- feriors of their fathers, husbands and brothers. The reason is in large part based on the feeling that their