now pronounced all wrong, not necessarily because
they were wrong then, but because conditions have changed, knowledge
has been gained, and it is clearly a waste of human life, of money, of
physical and mental power for people to be sick and die because the
caretaker does not use the knowledge in circulation.

If the young mother can learn how better to fulfill her duties by
going out of the house to lectures or classes, why not?

Tracts are not always successful as an incentive to conduct. It is
obviously impossible to pass a blue law compelling parents to conform
to--what ideal? The school is fast taking the place of the home, not
because it wishes to do so, but because the home does not fulfill its
function, and so far has not been made to, and the lack must be
supplied. The personal point of view, inculcated now by modern
conditions of strife for money, just as surely as it must have been by
barbarian struggle in pre-civilized days, must be supplanted by the
broad view of majority welfare. The extreme of the personal point of
view, expressed in such phrases as "The world owes me a living;" "My
child is mine to treat as I please;" "It is nobody's business how I
spend my money;" "I have a right to all the pleasure I can get out of
life," is well shown in Mr. H. G. Wells's analogy[12]: "A cat's
standpoint is probably strictly individualistic. She sees the whole
universe as a scheme of more or less useful, pleasurable, and
interesting things concentrated upon her sensitive and interesting
personality. With a sinuous determination she evades disagreeables
and pursues delights. Life is to her quite clearly and simply a
succession of pleasures, sensations, and interests, among which
interests there happen to be--kittens."

[12] Mankind in the Making.

This unsuspicious ignorance of the real nature of life is by no means
confined to animals and savages; it would seem to be the common view
of many young people today. At least they take as little care of the
homes to which they bring children, and they follow the cat's example
in boxing the children's ears and turning them out to fend for
themselves.

The last generation seemed to become disciples of Schopenhauer in his
passionate rebellion against the fate that deferred all the pleasure
of the present to the needs of the future generation. Evolution has
revealed the necessity for this subordination of the individual lot to
the destiny of the race, if progress is t