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care on the one hand, and towards economised 

 reproductivity on the other, were naturally 

 the survivors. But it was not the heightened 

 individuation that directly lowered the rate 

 of multiplication, although as individuation 

 increased it became possible for the multipli- 

 cation to be decreased. It must be observed 

 also, that part of the reduced fertility may be 

 due to hypernutrition and the like, to the 

 frequent absence of love-marriages, to selfish 

 celibacy and selfish non-maternity. The 

 highly individuated high castes of Brahmins 

 and Rajputs show none of the usual dwindling 

 tendency. 



It is conceivable that the endeavour after 

 self-realisation at a high level of culture may 

 be so strenuous that it induces conditions 

 tending against the making of good wives 

 and mothers, but it can hardly be maintained 

 that the deplored results are inevitable or 

 intrinsically connected with the education. 

 They are partly due to fictitious obstacles 

 thrown in the way of feminine education. 

 But to admit that artificial and readily 

 alterable conditions may tell against what 

 the Germans call full motherhood and strong 

 children, is a very different matter from 

 admitting that higher education is, biologically 

 considered, bad for the race. 



Here it may be fitting to refer to the ever- 

 returning suggestion that the intellectuals 

 among women should keep themselves free 

 for work in the world which needs them so 

 badly, and should leave it to their more placid, 

 less ambitious, less intellectual sisters to be 



