nourish blindly and ignorantly the offspring which she as blindly and ignorantly bears.
If but the ties might be sundered, if Womanhood unbound and free could but stand erect, how great a revolution there would be! If the countless, useless things in the home, care for which enslaves the wife and mother by binding her to a ceaseless round of duties, could be swept away, does anybody doubt for a moment that the effect upon the children would be beneficient? Could we but see it, the movement for the simplification of life is, in its profoundest bearings, in the interest of the Race-Lifethrough the liberations of its nourisher to pursue her divinest task with wisdom  and joy.   And the breaking down of false conceptions of life's innermost force, a franker recognition of the essential purity of sex, will as surely ennoble Motherhood and free it from the tragedy which now surrounds it. When women are no longer sent blindfolded into the maternal wilderness, when maternal functions are deliberately chosen with full knowledge of all their attendant responsibility, Motherhood will be glorified as never before and the Superman will be born. Sinding's masterpiece is indeed a glorious "sermon in stone."
-From "The Jrt of Stephan Sinding" in THE CRAFTSMAN, by John Spargo.
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