199). That view is extreme. Yet from the economic side, also,
Hobson, in summing up this question, regards the tendency of
machine-industry to drive women away from the home as "a tendency
antagonistic to civilization." The neglect of the home, he
states, is, "on the whole, the worst injury modern industry has
inflicted on our lives, and it is difficult to see how it can be
compensated by any increase of material products. Factory life
for women, save in extremely rare cases, saps the physical and
moral health of the family. The exigencies of factory life are
inconsistent with the position of a good mother, a good wife, or
the maker of a home. Save in extreme circumstances, no increase
of the family wage can balance these losses, whose values stand
upon a higher qualitative level" (J.A. Hobson, _Evolution of
Modern Capitalism_, Ch. XII; cf. what has been said in Ch. I of
the present volume). It is now beginning to be recognized that
the early pioneers of the "woman's movement" in working to remove
the "subjection of woman" were still dominated by the old ideals
of that subjection, according to which the masculine is in all
main respects the superior sex. Whatever was good for man, they
thought, must be equally good for woman. That has been the source
of all that was unbalanced and unstable, sometimes both a little
pathetic and a little absurd, in the old "woman's movement."
There was a failure to perceive that, first of all, women must
claim their right to their own womanhood as mothers of the race,
and thereby the supreme law-givers in the sphere of sex and the
large part of life dependent on sex. This special position of
woman seems likely to require a readjustment of economic
conditions to their needs, though it is not likely that such
readjustment would be permitted to affect their independence or
their responsibility. We have had, as Madame Juliette Adam has
put it, the rights of men sacrificing women, followed by the
rights of women sacrificing the child; that must be followed by
the rights of the child reconstituting the family. It has already
been necessary to touch on this point in the first chapter of
this volume, and it will again be necessary in the last chapter.

The question as to the method by which the economic independence of women
will be completely insured, and the p