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Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887

CHAPTER 25
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Our girls are as full of ambition for their careers as our boys.

Marriage, when it comes, does not mean incarceration for them, nor does it separate them in any way from the larger interests of society, the bustling life of the world.

Only when maternity fills a woman's mind with new interests does she withdraw from the world for a time.

Afterward, and at any time, she may return to her place among her comrades, nor need she ever lose touch with them.

Women are a very happy race nowadays, as compared with what they ever were before in the world's history, and their power of giving happiness to men has been of course increased in proportion." "I should imagine it possible," I said, "that the interest which girls take in their careers as members of the industrial army and candidates for its distinctions might have an effect to deter them from marriage." Dr.Leete smiled.


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