Women and Economics · Part XV

—— vs. the family, 215.

—— development of, retarded by the family, 218.

—— increasing demand for true, 218.

—— not identical with home, 220.

—— bachelor apartments vs., 297.

—— human comfort not dependent on, 298.

—— without housekeeping, 299.

—— men and women forced by their needs to, 300.

—— value of the care of children to, 301.

—— social freedom before, 309.

—— social freedom after, 310.

—— friendship often destroyed by, 310.

—— the cross-bred product of our, 332.

—— relation, permanence of, 301.

Married lovers economically apart, 219.

Marrow’s Food for infants, 196.

Mars, 192.

Martineau, Harriet, 53.

Martyrs, development of, 80.

Martyrs in proverb, 80.

—— men and women equal as, 147.

Masculine activity in obstetrics, 197.

Master, vices of the, 338.

Maternal duties, alleged requirements of, 19.

—— energy, the source of productive industry, 126.

—— instinct, unworthy of superstitious reverence, 194; results of, 198.

—— passion a sex-distinction, 41.

—— sacrifice, as a means of benefiting the species, 191.

Maternalizing of man, 127.

Maternity. See Motherhood.

Matriolatry, 174, 176.

Measure of human motherhood, 190.

Men, progress of humanity accomplished by, 74.

—— forced by their needs to marriage, 300.

—— the better friendship of, 306.

—— the real players of games, 308.

Method of home life, is our present, the best?, 210.

Methods of motherhood, the old, 270.

Middle Ages, the serf in, 78.

—— tournament of, 111.

—— minds of, 161.

—— universities of, 285.

—— best social factor of, 326.

Milk, Pennywhistle’s Sterilized, 196.

“Mind, the female,” 149.

Minds of Greece, 161.

—— of the Middle Ages, 161.

Mingling on a human basis, 306.

Mining camp, New Englanders in a, 320.

Mischief-box, Pandora and the, 329.

Mistress, house, vs. house-servant, 211.

Mixed heredity, 330.

Mixture, English blood, an expression of fresh racial life, 147.

Modern examples of loyalty, 276.

Modification to motherhood, examples of, 19.

—— of woman to sex, 39.

—— to sex, instance of, 65.

Monarchism, passage from feudalism to, 206.

Moral development of humanity, the, 326.

—— impulse, woman a self-conscious centre of, 336.

—— progress, woman’s one-sided contribution to, 335.

—— sense, an exclusively social distinction, 319.

—— of woman, the large, 335.

Mother, economic status of, 16, 21.

—— working power of, 21.

—— instinct of, 175.

—— value of, 177.

—— duty of, 187.

—— criminal failure of, 197.

—— the new, 211.

—— and son, unnatural separation of, 268.

—— restricted sense of duty of, 277.

—— a bad baby-educator, 284.

—— as a social servant, 290.

—— her prerogative of nursing, 291.

—— our idea of the experienced, 293.

—— always an amateur, 293.

—— reasons for the inefficiency of the individual, 293.

—— result of servitude of, 334.

Mothers, lower, 180.

Motherhood not an exchangeable commodity, 15.

—— and economic production, 17.

—— alleged disabilities of, 18.

—— disadvantages of, 171.

—— deficiencies of human, 173.

—— a process of life, 178.

—— the pathology of human, 181.

—— educative, 183.

—— inefficient, 183.

—— standard of, 185.

—— in education, 185.

—— responsibilities of, 186.

—— improvement in, 186.

—— a right, 188.

—— and racial advance, 189.

—— idealism of, 189.

—— the measure of human, 190.

—— unpreparedness for, 192.

—— instinct and intelligence in, 195.

—— a responsible, 200.

—— facts as to human, 200.

—— training for, 202.

—— professions unsuitable to, 246.

—— old methods of, 270.

—— open to improvement, 271.

—— supplemented by education, 287.

—— false perspective taught by primitive, 289.

—— the truest, 290.

—— educative, a social function, 293.

—— organized, productive of a nobler world, 294.

Movement, the woman’s, 122, 139, 144, 146.

—— the labor, 138.

Natural institution, the feast a, 252.

—— selection, force of, 36.

—— the race developed by, 37.

Nature, woman’s place in (quot.), 171.

—— man’s dual, 332.

Necessities of the child, 301.

Need of each other, our growing, 305.

—— the social, 306.

Needs of the child, old and new, 271.

—— of individuals, further provision required for, 298.

—— men and women forced to marriage by their, 300.

Nerve, effect of constant impressions on a, 77.

New Englanders in mining camps, 320.

—— home, the, 314.

—— man, the, 316.

—— mother, the, 211.

—— social intercourse, the, 313.

—— York, women wage-earners in, 242.

Nightingale, Florence, 163.

Noblesse of France, 146.

Non-productive consumers, 118.

Norman, the, 147.

Notion of knowledge, primitive, 285.

Nursing, the mothers prerogative of, 291.

Nutrition, the process of human, 225.

Obedience, virtue of, 325.

—— altruism of, 327.

Obstetrics, masculine activity in, 197.

Old maid in proverb, 88.

“Old Maids of Lynn, the Three,” 88.

Old methods of motherhood, 270.

Old and new needs of the child, 271.

Olympian games, 308.

One another, our social need of, 306.

Open to improvement, motherhood, 271.

Opinions on over-development of sex, 172.

Opponents of chattel slavery, 137.

Organisms, growth of, in two sexes, 29.

—— living, balance of power in, 59.

Organization, forbidden to woman, 67.

—— of household industries, 247.

Organized motherhood productive of a nobler world, 294.

Othello, 66.

“Our Better Halves” (Ward), 171.

Outgoing impulse in families, 303.

Over-development of sex, opinions on, 172.

Over-development of family devotion, the vendetta an, 275.

Pandora and the mischief-box, 329.

Paradoxical privacy, 255.

Parasitic creature, qualities developed by, 62.

Pardiggle, Mrs., 163.

Parent and child, wrong relation between, 272.

Parental divinity, 175.

—— government, 175.

Parthenogenesis, 130.

Partners, husband and wife not business, 12.

Passage from feudalism to monarchism, 206.

Passing the love of women (quot.), 305.

Pastoral unit, the family a, 215.

—— the tribe a, 215.

Pathology of human motherhood, 181.

Patriarchal government in the family, 214.

Patriotism, social qualities of, 325.

Paul, command of, to woman, 68.

Peace and comfort for women, 300.

Peacock, tail of, a secondary sex-distinction, 35.

Pennywhistle’s Sterilized Milk for infants, 196.

Percentage, permanent, of individuals, 297.

Perceptions of good and evil, 324.

Perfect love, 300.

Periclean age, 161.

Periods of transition always painful, 296.

Permanence of the marriage relation, 301.

Permanent percentage of individuals, 297.

Persia, sexuality of, 72.

Persian captives, stripping of, 73.

Person, the, vs. the family, 304.

Personal independence, how to retain, 11.

—— development, home ties detrimental to, 259.

Personality of the sex-relation, 83, 106.

—— the woman as a, 315.

Perspective, false, taught by primitive motherhood, 289.

Pestle’s Food for infants, 196.

Petruchio and the shrew, 333.

Phases of loyalty, 274.

Phenomena of sex, study of, 27.

Philanthropy, social quality of, 325.

Phillips, Wendell, 137.

Phœnicians, pioneer traders of the world, 4.

Plato, 162, 174.

Players of games, men the real, 308.

Popular voice on marriage, 93.

Population, preservation of, 160.

Power, balance of, in living organisms, 59.

—— of classification, 81.

—— of love, 133.

—— of sentiment, 248.

Practice of cooking, woman’s, 229.

Prayer, the Hebrew, 56.

Preparation of food, woman’s, a sex-function, 235–237.

Prerogative, the mother’s, of nursing, 291.

Present evil and future good, 206.

—— home life, feudalism of, 211.

Preservation of population, 160.

Price of comfort in the home, treason to society, the, 278.

Primitive man, sex-competition of, 60.

—— motherhood, false perspective taught by, 289.

—— notion of knowledge, the, 285.

Principle of social existence, loyalty the first, 274.

Privacy of home, 248.

—— paradoxical, 255.

—— the true, 256.

—— family vs. individual, 258.

—— aggregate, of the family, 258.

Problems, present, in economics, 99.

Proclamation of Daniel, 71.

Process of sexual selection, 111.

—— of life, motherhood a, 178.

—— of human nutrition, 225.

Processes of race and self preservation, 52.

—— of reproduction and education, 179.

Product, wealth a social, 101.

—— the cross-bred, of our marriage, 332.

Production, economic, 116.

—— and woman, 117, 118.

Products, standard of food, 228.

Profession, cooking as a, 239.

Professional cleaners, advantage of, 255.

—— preparation of food increasing, 249.

—— service in cooking, 241.

Professions, women’s choice of, 246.

—— unsuitable to motherhood, 246.

Profit of egoism to the isolated individual, 325.

—— of altruism to the socialized individual, 325.

Progeny of Anglo-Saxon and Oriental, 332.

—— of Anglo-Saxon and African, 332.

Progress of humanity accomplished by men, 74.

—— of individualization, 139.

—— true social, based on a spirit of inter-human love, 142.

—— of women, 148, 149.

—— unorganized home industries a check to social, 156.

—— human, lies in perfecting the social organization, 162.

—— the duty of human life, 207.

—— definition of human, 208.

—— home a limit to social, 223.

—— woman’s one-sided contribution to moral, 335.

Proofs of excessive sex-development, 84.

Prostitution, social estimate of, 28.

—— the flower of the sexuo-economic relation, 171.

Proverb, woman in, 43, 50, 65, 71, 114.

—— the martyr in, 80.

—— the old maid in, 88.

“Proverbs of All Nations,” facts concerning the “Handbook of,” 49.

Provision for individuals not members of families, 297, 298.

Psychic hybrids, our race of, 331.

—— qualities of woman, a result of the sexuo-economic relation, 337.

—— relation, disadvantageous, of home life, 273.

Public house, the, 264.

Punch, advice of, in regard to marriage, 28.

Qualities, survival of harmful, 327.

—— woman’s psychic, the result of the sexuo-economic relation, 337.

Quality of patriotism, the social, 325.

—— of philanthropy, the social, 325.

—— of statesmanship, the social, 325.

Question of woman’s soul, 68.

Race of psychic hybrids, our, 331.

—— attributes different from sex-attributes, 51.

—— development, a check to, 65.

—— distinction, civilization our, 74.

—— function, cooking retarded as a, 241.

—— myth, a, 92.

—— preservation, process of, not self-preservation, 34, 52.

Races, dead, 25.

Racial advance, woman’s share in, 9; motherhood and, 189.

—— habits, force of, 78.

Reasons for the inefficiency of the individual mother, 293.

Reflection of savage conditions, savage virtues the, 321.

Relation, extension of the social, 123.

—— woman’s, to society, 164.

—— change of basis in the family, 271.

—— the wrong, between parent and child, 272.

—— psychic, of home life disadvantageous, 273.

—— permanence of the marriage, 301.

—— of the sexes, effect of, 318.

—— sexuo-economic, changes of, 122; benefit of, 136; evil results of, 187, 339; servant-motherhood a result of, 279; outgrown, 316; woman’s psychic qualities a result of, 337; selfishness fostered by, 338.

Relations, economic, good results of sex-equality in, 340.

Relationship, broader, for the child, 291.

—— wider human, not wider sex-relationship, 304.

Relative term, virtue a, 274.

Religion, virtue of faith in, 322.

Religious development, dead-line of, 68.

Repression of woman, results of, 119.

Reproduction, excessive indulgence an injury to, 42.

—— and education, processes of, 179.

Responsibilities of motherhood, 186, 200.

Restricted sense of duty, of the mother, 277.

Restriction of woman, in freedom of expression, 66.

—— in thought, 335.

—— retarding influence of, 336.

Result of excessive sex-energy, the, 141.

—— of the sexuo-economic relation, servant-motherhood the, 279.

—— of the development of the kindergarten, 286.

—— of the arrested development of woman, 330.

—— of the economic independence of woman, 331.

—— of the servitude of the mother, 334.

Result of the sexuo-economic relation, woman’s psychic qualities a, 337.

Results of chattel slavery, 82.

—— motherhood to be measured by its, 178.

—— of the untrained maternal instinct, 198.

—— of the future development of cooking, 254.

—— evil, of the sexuo-economic relation, 339.

—— good, of sex-equality in economic relations, 340.

Retarding influence of restricted woman, 336.

Right motherhood, 188.

Right not proven by enjoyment, 209.

Rothschild, house of, 4.

Rousseau, J. J., 137, 174.

Sacrifice, past, of woman, 134.

—— the maternal, 191.

Salic law, none in heredity, 69, 334.

Sanctuary of the home, 203.

Saturn, 192.

Savage virtues the reflection of savage conditions, 321.

Saxon, 147.

Scale of virtues, changing, 322.

Science, ethics a social, 319.

Seat of government, home the, 181, 222.

Self-preservation, process of, not race-preservation, 34.

—— the sexes and, 52.

Selfishness fostered by the sexuo-economic relation, 280, 338.

Sense, duty a social, 276.

—— moral, an exclusively social distinction, 319.

—— struggle of individual vs. social, 327.

—— moral, of woman, large, 335.

—— of duty of the mother, restricted, 277.

Sensual not sexual, 40.

Sentiment, power of, 248.

Separation, unnatural, of mother and son, 268.

Serf in the Middle Ages, 78.

Servant, an intruder, 256.

—— the mother as a social, 290.

—— cooking of, 239.

Servant-motherhood, the result of the sexuo-economic relation, 279.

—— effect of, on the child, 280.

Servant-wife, home life of, 263.

Service, professional, in cooking, 241.

—— high and low forms of social, 279.

Servile world, that in which all women are house-servants, 262.

Servitude, discord of will and action in, 333.

—— of the mother, the result of, 334.

“Sex, the weaker,” 45.

—— domination of, 53.

—— instance of modification of, 65.

—— decadence of, 158.

—— opinions on over-development of, 172.

—— man’s sovereignty due to accident of, 337.

—— children trained to, 309.

Sex-attraction, factor in reproduction, 30.

—— manifested to excess, 31.

—— curse of excessive, 31.

—— economic profit of woman won through, 63.

—— woman’s amusement gained through, 308.

Sex-attributes different from race-attributes, 57.

Sex-characteristics, primary and secondary, 32, 33.

Sex-competition of primitive man, 60.

Sex-development, precocity of, in children, 54–56.

—— cause of exaggerated, 58.

—— one check to excessive, 72.

—— proofs of excessive, 84.

Sex-distinction, natural processes of, 29.

—— manifestations of, 32.

—— excessive, 33.

—— checks to, 35.

—— development of, in woman, 38.

—— woman’s means of getting a livelihood, 38.

—— primary and secondary, 40, 41.

—— normal and abnormal, 43.

—— psychic manifestation of, 47.

—— of women, 93.

Sex-energy, primal manifestation of, 42.

—— a racial wrong, 96.

—— excess of, 96.

—— result of excessive, 141.

Sex-function, woman’s preparation of food a, 235, 237.

Sex-indulgence, excess in, 30.

Sex-interest in marriage, 93.

Sex-life, the higher, 143.

Sex-prejudice of the Chinese, 69.

—— of the Hindu, 69.

Sex-relation and economic relation, 5.

—— phenomena of, in the human species, 23.

Sex-relation a field of human difficulty, 25.

—— maladjustment of, in humanity, 25.

—— a frightful source of evil, 26.

—— personal quality of, 83, 106.

—— feminine value of women in, 94.

—— only for sale among human beings, 95.

—— in marriage, 97.

—— not social relation, 105.

—— vs. sexuo-economic relation, 108.

Sex-relationship, 74.

—— wider human relationship not a wider, 304.

Sexual selection, process of, 111.

Sexuo-economic relation, effect of, 94.

—— benefit of, 136.

—— results of, 187, 329.

—— outgrown, 316.

—— selfishness fostered by, 338.

Shalott, Lady of, 87.

Share in social intercourse, woman’s, 295.

Shrew, Petruchio and the, 333.

Slave, vices of the, in woman, 333.

Slavery, results of chattel, 82.

—— opponents of chattel, 137.

Social condition, pressure of, on the Jew, 4.

—— consciousness, a vital force to-day, 143.

—— eating, bad effects of, 254.

—— evil, 28, 94.

—— evolution, a natural process, 95.

—— processes of, 102, 103.

—— existence, loyalty the first principle of, 274.

—— factor, what man the best, 326.

—— freedom before marriage, 309; after marriage, 310.

—— function, cooking a, 240; specialization of, 241; education a, 283; educative maternity a, 293.

—— heart, the, 156.

—— institution, chattel slavery a, 78.

—— intercourse, woman’s share in, 295; demand for free, between the sexes, 296; development of the true, 302; how to assist this development, 302; the new, 313.

—— interest vs. individual interest, 104–106; among women, 163; the larger, of cities, 267.

—— life, home life an accompaniment to, 222.

—— need, our, of one another, 306.

—— product, wealth a, 101.

—— progress, checks to, 24; the true, 142; home a limit to, 223.

—— qualities, 325.

—— relation, not sex-relation, 105; extension of, 123.

—— science, ethics a, 219.

—— sense, duty a, 276; struggle of the individual vs., 327.

—— servant, the mother as a, 290.

—— service, high and low forms of, 279.

—— spirit does not rest on a sex-basis, 143.

—— sympathy, growing activity of, 163.

—— unit, the family as a, 217.

Society, survival of the complex, 102.

—— woman’s relation to, 164.

—— the price of comfort in the home treason to, 278.

Sociological law, a remarkable, 80.

Sodom, 72.

Solomon, 50.

Somerville, Mary, 53.

Son, unnatural separation of mother and, 268.

Soul, question of woman’s, 68.

—— the human, in America, 148.

Sovereignty, man’s, due to accident of sex, 337.

Standard of motherhood, 185.

—— of food products, 228.

—— of good food, effects of a, 250.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 166.

Statesmanship, social quality of, 325.

Sterilized Milk, Pennywhistle’s, 196.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 137.

Stomach, no longer a family tie, 253.

Strain on family ties, family visiting a, 303.

Stripping of Persian captives, 73.

Struggle of individual sense vs. social sense, 327.

—— between good and evil, 329.

Submission, development of, in woman, 333.

Sumter, Fort, 146.

Surprised Britons about Boston Tea Party, 146.

Surroundings of infancy capable of betterment, 292.

Survival of a complex society, 102.

—— of harmful qualities, 327.

Sympathy, social, 163.

Systematic education, growth of, 285.

Table, a common, a common tie, 252.

Table-cloth, family unity bound by the, 244.

Tea Party, Boston, 146.

Temporary homes, 265.

Tendency of home life, 263.

Tennyson, quotation from, 147.

Term, virtue a relative, 274.

Thought, restriction of, in woman, 335.

“Three Old Maids of Lynn,” 88.

Tie, a common table a common, 252.

—— the stomach no longer a family, 253.

Ties, home, detrimental to personal development, 259.

—— family, strengthened by economic changes, 302.

—— family, family visiting a strain on, 303.

Tournament of the Middle Ages, 111.

Towers, the Duchess of, 148.

Training for motherhood, 202.

—— the wrong, for baby-culture, 270.

Transition, all periods of, painful, 296.

Treason to society, the price of comfort in the home, 278.

Trend, inevitable, of life, 73.

Tribe, an extension of the family, 215.

—— the pastoral unit, 215.

True family life, fulfilment of the, 268.

—— love, course of, 28.

—— marriage, increasing demand for, 218.

—— privacy, 256.

—— social progress, 142.

Truest motherhood, 290.

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” 161.

Uniform environment, result of, 64.

Unit, the family as a social, 217.

Unity, family, bound by a table-cloth, 244.

Universities of the Middle Ages, 285.

Unnatural separation of mother and son, 268.

Unpreparedness for motherhood, 192.

Unsatisfactory association among women, 307.

Unsuitable to maternity, professions, 246.

Use, familiarity by, 79.

Utah, the family in, 216.

Value of free association of the sexes, 314.

Vedas, the, 28.

Vendetta, an over-development of family devotion, 275.

—— of the Corsicans, 275.

Vice vs. virtue, 109.

—— promoted by the sexuo-economic relation, 312.

Vices of the slave in woman, 333.

—— of the master in man, 338.

Vigor of Greece, 72.

Virtue vs. vice, 109.

—— of loyalty, growth of, 274.

—— a relative term, 274.

—— of faith in religion, 322.

—— human distinction in, 322.

—— altruism the main distinction of human, 323.

—— Huxley on, 324.

—— of obedience, 325.

Virtues, savage, reflection of savage conditions, 321.

—— changing scale of, 322.

Voice of God, our good impulses called the, 328.

Wage-earners, women, with families, ideal home for, 242.

—— in New York, 242.

War, woman in, 165.

Ward, Lester F., quotation from, 171.

Wealth a social product, 101.

Wider human relationship not a wider sex-relationship, a, 304.

Wife, husband and, not business partners, 12.

—— supported by her husband, 18.

Will and action, discord of, in servitude, 333.

Wives as earners through domestic service, 14.

—— not salaried as mothers, 17.

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 166.

—— club movement, 164.

—— movement, 122, 139, 144, 146.

Womanliness of home duties, 225.

Women as economic factors in society, 13; labor of, not a factor in economic exchange, 15.

—— as mothers, 15.

—— house service of, 20.

—— extra-maternal duties of, 21.

—— modification of, to sex, 39.

—— in proverb, 43, 50, 65, 71, 114.

—— development of sex-activity of, 44.

—— of the harem, 45.

—— of the Germanic tribes, 46.

—— feebleness of, a sex-distinction, 46.

—— of fiction, 50.

—— over-sexed, 54.

—— first enslaving of, 60.

—— results of enslaving of, 61.

—— fed and defended by men, 61.

—— economic profit of, won through sex-attraction, 63.

—— restrictions upon, 66.

—— work of, 67.

—— specialization and organization forbidden to, 67.

—— Paul’s command to, 68.

—— question of soul in, 68.

—— attitude of, toward marriage, 86.

—— independence of, 91.

—— results of repression of, 119.

—— past sacrifices of, 134.

—— economic dependence of, ending, 138.

—— as martyrs, 147.

—— among the pioneers, 147.

—— progress of, 148, 149.

—— as workers, 152, 153.

—— specialized, 155.

—— desire of, for work, 157.

—— extension of functions in, 160.

—— social interest among, 163.

—— relation of, to society, 164.

—— in war, 165.

—— spirit of heroic, 166.

—— development of, 168.

—— specialization of, 169, 171.

—— economic dependence of rich, 170.

—— place of, in nature, 171.

—— and home life, 204.

—— food and, 226, 227.

—— practice of cooking by, 229.

—— preparation of food by, a sex-function, 235–237.

—— wage-earners, with families, ideal home for, 242.

—— wage-earners in New York, 242.

—— motherhood of, and the choice of professions by, 246.

—— free, and their homes, 257.

—— household decoration of, an expression of economic dependence, 257.

—— share of, in social intercourse, 295.

—— gradual individualization of, 295.

—— entrance of, upon a more individual life, 297.

—— peace and comfort for, 300.

—— forced by their needs to marriage, 300.

—— result of economic independence of, 304.

—— unsatisfactory association of, 307.

—— amusements of, gained through sex-attraction, 308.

—— embarrassments of young man visiting, 311.

—— cost of pleasing, 312.

—— new estimate of true manhood by, 315.

—— personality of, 315.

—— becoming economically independent, 316.

—— condition of, the doorway of evil, 329.

—— result of arrested development of, 330.

—— vices of the slave in, 333.

—— development of submission in, 333.

—— restriction of thought in, 335.

—— large moral sense of, 335.

—— one-sided contribution of, to moral progress, 335.

—— retarding influence of, restricted, 336.

—— self-conscious centres of moral influence, 336.

—— psychic qualities of, a result of the sexuo-economic relation, 337.

World, a servile, 262.

—— organized motherhood productive of a nobler, 294.

—— a humanly related, 313.

—— the, the flesh, and the devil, 328.

Work, woman’s, 67.

—— woman’s desire for, 157.

—— loyalty to our, 276.

Workers, women, 152, 153.

Working for human improvement, 317.

Worship, of the home, 204.

—— family, in China, 223.

Wrong relation between parent and child, 272.

—— training for baby-culture, 270.

Young man, education of the, 188.

—— in the city, 311.

—— new incentive for, 315.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. Contents added by transcriber. 2. P. 265, changed “household gods” to “household goods”. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors. 4. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in underscores.