sels to hold and to carry
water, baskets to store the food supplies would have to be
made. Clothes for protection against the cold would come to
be fashioned. All the faculties of the women, in exercises
that would lead to the development of every part of their
bodies, would be called into play by the work of satisfying
the physical needs of the group.

8. This interest and providence for the family would
certainly have its effect on the development of the women.
The formation of character is largely a matter of attention,
and the attention of the mothers being fixed on the supply
of the necessary food, doubtless often difficult to obtain,
their energies would be driven into productive activities,
much more than in the case of the father, whose attention
was fixed upon himself.

9. In all these numerous activities the women of each group
would work together. And through this co-operation must have
resulted the assertion of the women's power, as the
directors and organisers of industrial occupations. As the
group slowly advanced in progress, such power increasing
would raise the women's position; the mothers would
establish themselves permanently as of essential value in
the family, not only as the givers of life, but as the chief
providers of the food essential to the preservation of the
life of its members.

10. And a further result would follow in the treatment by
the male of this new order. The women by obtaining and
preparing food would gain an economic value. Wives would
become to the patriarch a source of riches, indispensable to
him, not only on account of his sex needs, but on account of
the more persistent need of food. Thus the more women he
possessed the greater would be his own comfort, and the
physical prosperity of the group. The women would become of
ever greater importance, and the economic power that they
thus acquired would more and more favourably influence their
position.

11. There is one other matter in this connection. The
greater number of women in the group the stronger would
become their power of combination. I attach great importance
to this. Working together for the welfare of all, the social
motive would grow stronger in women, so that necessarily
they would come to consider the col