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fit for mother-craft directly, though here are rays 

 of light. 



The educational system was made by and for 

 men, being open to women in its present scope but 

 comparatively few years. If education is really the 

 drawing out of the individual, it must include the 

 perfecting of reproduction ; at least you will concede 

 the negative point that education must not destroy 

 so vital a part of the person. 



If the tendency of education is, as we believe, 

 toward fuller consciousness and more intense mental 

 and spiritual life, our creative and evolutionary powers 

 must come also into that field. "A house divided 

 against itself cannot stand." 



To get infant welfare, survival of a good quality 

 of children, the educator of the girl, physical, mental, 

 and religious, must, each in his own sphere, include 

 reproduction ; not only the bare skeleton of the 

 scientific fact, but also its ethical content and eternal 

 relationships. 



DISCUSSION. 



Dr. SALEEBY expressed his gratitude to the author for 

 having contributed a paper on what was a most im- 

 portant part of the question of education and parenthood. 

 Practically everyone was agreed that there should be 

 education for parenthood, but the question of the influence 

 of their present educational methods upon parenthood was 

 more fundamental. It was no good educating a child for 

 parentage in such a fashion that the result was that she 

 became incapable of parenthood. He had got into a lot 

 of trouble with reviewers from the statements he had made 

 in regard to the matter in his book on womanhood and 

 which were based principally on the work of that great 

 American educationalist, Dr. Stanley Hall. He had been 

 told that the figures he quoted were entirely obsolete and 

 that later figures existed showing that girls who had been 

 educated and had taken most distinguished positions had 

 as many or more children than the average American 

 woman, and were at least as able nurses. He would very 

 much like to know if that was really the case. The educa- 



