The Family i6i 



ward form that their mothers will recognize 

 them. In the third place, instead of produc- 

 ing 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 arrange- 

 ments we find carried out to the last detail." 

 The human mother is thus primarily made by 

 these four processes. During this period the 

 mother also requires care and protection, and 

 thus is evolved the father, giving love and sup- 

 port to mother and offspring. In this way the 

 family is created, which is the unit of civiliza- 

 tion around which cluster all the higher attri- 

 butes of man. 



Love, apart from passion and selfishness, is 

 due to children : it has descended directly from 

 them. The nurture and care of children, if 

 properly conceived and carried out, constitute 



