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66 The Century of the Child
are the mile-stones in the line of progress of
the woman’s rights movement. It is a line
pursued without consideration of feminine ca-
pacities, nature, and environment.
The exclamation of a woman’s rights cham-
pion when another woman had become a
butcher, " Go thou and do Hkewise," and an
American young lady working as an execu-
tioner, are, in this connection, characteristic
phenomena.
The emancipation of woman has practically
ceased to be the freedom which enlarges soul
and heart. It is conducted quite officially,
like a business, and dogmatically, too, with-
out feeling for the pulsating manifoldness of
life, and has become an egoistic self-concen-
trated campaign. On this account I, and
many others of my generation, with many
more of the younger generation, stand out-
side of the movement, although we actively
wished, and still wish, for the freedom of
woman. The champions of woman’s rights,
like the champions of other movements for
rights, illustrate the truth of the old Swedish
saying, that " what we are pursuing is really
only a runaway horse attached to our waggon."
How blindly the fanatics of woman’s rights
have rushed by the other needs of the time
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