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and away from school in attendance on their mothers 

 for the two or three weeks following childbirth, threaten- 

 ing defaulters with the heaviest penalties of the law. 

 In the second, it recommended the purchase of full-sized 

 dolls and complete layettes as part of the school equip- 

 ment, in order to accustom the elder scholars to the 

 care and protection of infant life. Comment is super- 

 fluous. Nothing that a girl can learn at school can be 

 compared in importance to a thorough grasp of the 

 fact that her first and most urgent duties must always 

 be within the family circle, and that the welfare of 

 the future citizens of the race is the province of social 

 endeavour which falls naturally to her share. 



As we have already said, the problem of education 

 and the problem of training are in many aspects two 

 entirely separate affairs ; that of training is a matter of 

 expediency for the individual, of efficiency for the 

 nation. As training affects the chances of survival of 

 one man rather than another, of one generation in a 

 nation instead of its rival overseas, so it exercises an 

 indirect effect in determining racial or individual pre- 

 ponderance. But the history of the Jewish nation 

 shows us that, given an educational and religious up- 

 bringing of a satisfactory type and of sufficient strength, 

 any form of training may be safely superadded. 



The outlook upon life as a whole, the question of 

 the right development of the inborn qualities of each 

 man or woman duly considering the necessary sub- 

 ordination of the individual to the race the teaching 

 of traditional wisdom and racial experience, the true 

 relation of the able and competent to the weakly and 

 feckless, the amount of sacrifice to be exacted from the 



