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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    sphere of work is somewhat trivial, that their range of influence is not important enough for their dignity. Under a better custom things would change. Rather would they then look upon themselves as different, not inferior. They would recognize that the differ- ence between men and women is a matter of mental and physical constitution. And a difference in con- stitution means a difference in function. When this becomes clearly known, when women feel within them- selves the responsibilities of definite and useful ac- tivity and with this recognize the normal and right field for their abilities, there will be less of an outcry against the “unnatural competition ” between brother and sister, husband and wife. The more clearly each one recognizes his limitations and proper field of en- deavor, the sooner will a more tolerable condition of affairs come about. And as soon as their recognition is definite and clear cut, there will grow up in women as in men, a triumphant demand for the best prepara- tion that will fit them for their proper activity. The world has always recognized that a woman’s natural and highest sphere is that of mother, and the woman who best embodied the mother-ideal has always been the subject of the sincerest worship. In the changes incident to modern life the fact that the means for attaining this ideal may be altered has been lost sight of. As a result of historical experi- ence, women have been in the habit of looking upon