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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 97
hood is not essential: then everything must
continue to go on as it is going on now, and
work directed towards external spheres with
its satisfaction in the joy of creation, of am-
bition, of gain, of enjoyment, of independence,
will be more and more the end towards which
women will arrange their plan of life. For
this end they will modify their fundamental
habits and remould their feelings. The naive
belief that every woman, who has the liberty to
do so, is following her own nature, shows a
complete ignorance of psychology and history.
Some ideal considered worth striving for, the
prevailing view of a period, will obtain su-
premacy over nature. This is shown best in
the stunted feeling of motherhood peculiar to
the eighteenth century, by the plain results of
mediseval asceticism. By a new ideal innu-
merable women are now driven from a life
directed inwards to a life directed outwards.
I am in favour of real freedom for woman;
that is, I wish her to follow her own nature,
whether she be an exceptional or an ordinary
woman. But the opinion held by the feminine
advocates of woman’s emancipation, in regard
to the nature and the aims of the everyday
woman, does violence to the real nature of
most women. It is one of the most remarkable
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