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S BEAUTIFUL as it is daring in conception is "The
Captive Mother," one of the sculptor's most striking creations. In it we have symbolized the whole tragedy of womanhood and its supreme glory-motherhood. Incomprehensibly stupid is the frequent description of this great work as the representation of 'a slave mother nursing her'child.' It is a symbolization of Woman, the Nourisher of the Race, bound and hampered in her noblest work by manifold limitations. Centuries of oppression and denial of freedom to develop, limit and bind her. In the great Empire State of the greatest Republic in history, the purest woman is still politically on a level with the vilest criminal and the most driveling imbecile. Woman is bound to the mound of the debris of all the ages-the debris of false conventions, outworn lies, and useless labors.  By a senseless servitude to useless things she is prevented from giving to her offspring the intelligent care which otherwise would be possible. By ties which bind her to false ideas of sex, a cruel and vain standard of sex ethics, she is doomed to
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