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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 65
to increase the civil rights and the fields of
woman’s labour. In both cases people really
have the women of the upper classes in view.
This has been the end, and it is thoroughly-
justified and justifiable. But, in striving for
this end, those who are aiming at it have
come more and more into opposition to the first
and highest of all rights, the rights of the
individual woman to think her own thoughts,
to go her own ways, even when these thoughts
and these ways follow other courses than
those of the advocates of woman’s rights.
While this group is, on one hand, very far
from conceding to the individual woman the
freedom which belongs to her, it is, on the
other hand, blind to the results of the self-
assertion of the whole female sex. In taking
up work more and more external in char-
acter, they are blind to the profound and
revolutionary eifects of this movement, on the
conditions of labour in the present day, on the
existence of man and the family, on society as
a whole.
Doing away with an unjust paragraph in
a law which concerns woman, turning a hun-
dred women into a field of work where only ten
were occupied before, giving one woman work
where formerly not one was employed,—these
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