Part IV Children — The Cul-de-Sac of All Reforms
‘An early result, partly of her sex, partly of her passive strain is the founding, through the instrumentality of the first savage Mother, of a new and beautiful social state—Domesticity.... One day there appears in this roofless room that which is to teach the teachers of the world—a Little Child.’
—Henry Drummond.
‘Every good woman is by nature a mother, and finds best in maternity her social and moral salvation. She shall be saved in child-bearing.’ —Grant Allen.
‘Children are a man’s power and his honour.’ —Hobbes.