THE PATH OF EVOLUTION 



animals find their greatest happiness in those days 

 when their whole time and thought are given to the 

 helpless ones they love. The bird, hastening to its 

 nest with food for its young ; the hen, busy with her 

 little brood; the patient mother, with her kittens 

 sprawling over her as she lies all attest the tender 

 feeling that animates her who protects and loves the 

 little ones, and to whose care they have been given. 

 To her comes also the greatest happiness this world 

 can give the love of the young mother for her child : 

 unselfish, untiring, delighting in the fulfilment of the 

 duties now imposed, the inborn instincts inherited 

 by her, in common with the mothers of most other 

 creatures, rejoices in the young life given, and for its 

 defense and preservation would willingly venture her 

 own ! 



It is for this reason that woman's nature differs 

 from that of man. For her, the duty above all things 

 else, is to defend and guard the helpless beings in her 

 charge. For the mothers, in all the long line of an- 

 cestral evolution through which she came, have had 

 this task. It was not their duty and it is not hers 

 to consider the rights of others to give to others 

 that which is justly due them. For her the outside 

 world is as nothing when the welfare of her young 

 children is in question. The races of the world may 

 perish rather than that one of her little ones should 



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