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female community been neuters. Failing any 

 thorough-going reform of this kind, we see nothing 

 for it but the old division of humanity into men 

 potentially, or actually, fathers, and women poten- 

 tially, if not actually, mothers. And we fear that 

 so long as this potential motherhood is her lot, 

 woman will be found to be fearfully weighted in 

 the race of life. 



The duty of man is to see that not a grain is 

 piled upon that load beyond what Nature im- 

 poses ; that injustice is not added to inequality. 



