130 CREATIVE INVOLUTION 



dearest to you! It is yours to give to that home 

 what no one else can: the warmth of a constructive 

 personality. 



It will be urged that woman has a right to the dis- 

 cipline which comes from participation in the affairs 

 of the world; that only through such rational re- 

 sponsibility may she attain the full development of 

 her personality. But not only does the home need 

 the woman ; the woman needs the home. Her largest 

 self-hood is not to be realised through high special- 

 isation, but through the all-round-faculty and adapt- 

 ability that the home life requires. The Chinese hon- 

 our most the woman who is able to hold together the 

 greatest number of persons in an harmonious family 

 life. The woman of the Occident may draw a lesson 

 therefrom. 



In order that woman may accomplish this, her no- 

 blest work, she must be free to attempt every accessi- 

 ble height both of personal cultivation and of polit- 

 ical influence. When the sex has demonstrated its 

 ability to achieve success in other professions, and 

 woman as an individual becomes a homemaker of 

 choice and not of necessity, then and only then will 

 the home take on a dignity equal to these professions. 

 Moreover, women must have the right to work out- 

 side the home if they are to regard it a privilege to 

 work in it. Nor does motherhood necessarily imply 

 that woman should be barred from other activities, 

 but if she is a mother that is her first loyalty. Only 



