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if these do not exist in her, the child cannot 

 survive. Merely bringing a child into life is 

 not sufficient, so that an ethical element is as 

 necessary as a physical one for continued exis- 

 tence. 



The human child does what the offspring of 

 the lower animals never accomplishes, — it acts 

 as a developer of the affections, — it creates the 

 true mother. Eveiy mother may thus become 

 a Madonna. The greatest moral force in the 

 world for its uplifting hence has its original 

 basis in a physical condition in which the child 

 plays the leading role. Drummond ^ calls atten- 

 tion to the fact that before maternal love can be 

 evolved out of mere rudimentary care, before 

 love can be made a necessity and carried past 

 the unhatched egg to the living thing which is 

 to come out of it, nature must alter all her ways. 

 He puts it thus, — **Four great changes at 

 least must be introduced into her programme. 

 In the first place, she must cause fewer young 

 to be produced at birth. In the second place, 

 she must have these young produced in such out- 



1 The Ascent of Mem, James Pott & Co. 



