Until Mothers Earn Their Livings, Women Will

It Cannot Be Too Strongly Asserted That The Insistence On Blind, Unreasoning Faith Is Due Mainly To The Maintenance Of A Subject-matter Upon Which There Was No Knowledge, Namely The 'other World'; And That This Basis Was Assumed Because Of Early Man's Preoccupation With Death. It Is, Unfortunately, Quite Possible To Believe A Thing Which Is Contradicted By Facts, Especially If The Facts Are Not Generally Known; But If The Whole Position On Which We Rested Our Religions Had Been Visibly Opposed By What We Did Know, Even The Unthinking Masses Would, In Time, Have Noticed It.

We All Need One Another; Much And Often. Just As Every Human Creature Needs A Place To Be Alone In, A Sacred, Private "home" Of His Own, So All Human Creatures Need A Place To Be Together In, From The Two Who Can Show Each Other Their Souls Uninterruptedly, To The Largest Throng That Can Throb And Stir In Unison.

If Only Religion Could Be Brought To Take An Interest In This Earthly Future, What A Help It Would Be! ... Think Of The Appeal To The Less Spiritual Of Us, To Those Who Never Did Get Enthusiastic About Eternity, Or Care So Tenderly About Their Own Souls, Yet Who Could Rise To The Thought Of Improving This World For The Children They Love, And Their Children After Them.

So When The Great Word "mother!" Rang Once More, I Saw At Last Its Meaning And Its Place; Not The Blind Passion Of The Brooding Past, But Mother -- The World's Mother -- Come At Last, To Love As She Had Never Loved Before -- To Feed And Guard And Teach The Human Race.

The Fact That Women In The Home Have Shut Themselves Away From The Thought And Life Of The World Has Done Much To Retard Progress.we Fill The World With The Children Of 20th Century A.d. Fathers And 20th Century B.c. Mothers.