THE EVOLUTION OF A MOTHER 349 



Now, before Maternal Love can be evolved out 

 of this first care, before Love can be made a 

 necessity, and carried past the unhatched ^^^ to 

 the living thing which is to come out of it, Nature 

 must alter all her ways. Four great changes at 

 least must be introduced into her programme. In 

 the first place, she must cause fewer young to be 

 produced at a birth. In the second place, she 

 must have these young produced in such out- 

 ward form that their Mothers will recognize them. 

 In the third place, instead of producing them in 

 such physical perfection that they are able to go 

 out into life the moment they are born, she must 

 make them helpless, so that for a time they must 

 dwell with her if they are to live at all. And 

 fourthly, it is required that she shall be made to 

 dwell with them ; that in some way they also 

 should be made necessary — physically necessary — 

 to her to compel her to attend to them. All these 

 beautiful arrangements we find carried out to the 

 last detail. A mother is made, as it were, in 

 four processes. She requires, like the making of a 

 coloured picture, four separate printings, each adding 

 some new thing to the effect. Let us note the way 

 in which woman — savage woman — became care 

 taker, and watcher, and nurse, and passed from 

 femaleness to the higher heights of Motherhood. 



