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as a source of not a little of the social disorders we see 

 around us, it seems clear that the training of boys 

 cannot be put on the same footing as that of girls, 

 although the educational problems are apparently the 

 same for both sexes. It is a fundamental condition of 

 much of the work of this world, that duties must be 

 performed by men, in spite of any disturbance of the 

 family life, by illness, sorrow or death. The railway 

 signalman must leave a sick child to go on duty, a 

 mariner must take his ship out of port and desert a 

 bed-ridden wife, a doctor must go on his rounds and 

 forget the burden of domestic trials and anxieties. 

 The profession of men is often necessarily apart from 

 and outside their home life. But in the case of women 

 the accepted outlook is quite other. No call from the 

 outside world is recognized to be sufficient to separate 

 a mother from a sick child, or to withdraw a woman 

 from a home where her presence is urgently required. 



The importance of this well-recognized difference of 

 obligation has not been sufficiently grasped. It is a 

 variation of psychological attitude of profound meaning 

 to the welfare of the race, and depends largely on the 

 proposition stated in a previous chapter, namely, that 

 the natural duties of a man are directed to the mainten- 

 ance of present-day conditions, while those of a woman 

 infallibly lead her to take heed for the future welfare 

 of the nation, which lies largely within the circle of 

 domestic occupations, and includes much of that 

 environmental influence which we wish to classify 

 under the name of education. 



Therefore, whatever training be imposed outside the 

 home circle, it is desirable that from the beginning the 



