As Friedrich Naumann and others have very truly pointed out, a woman is not adequately equipped to fulfil her functions as mother and trainer of children unless she has lived in the world and exercised a vocation.
[3] "Were the capacities of the brain and the heart equal in the sexes," Lily Braun (_Die Frauenfrage_, page 207) well says, "the entry of women into public life would be of no value to humanity, and would even lead to a still wilder competition.

Only the recognition that the entire nature of woman is different from that of man, that it signifies a new vivifying principle in human life, makes the women's movement, in spite of the misconception of its enemies and its friends, a social revolution" (see also Havelock Ellis, _Man and Woman_, fourth edition, 1904, especially Ch.
XVIII).
[4] The word "puericulture" was invented by Dr.Caron in 1866 to signify the culture of children after birth.

It was Pinard, the distinguished French obstetrician, who, in 1895, gave it a larger and truer significance by applying it to include the culture of children before birth.

It is now defined as "the science which has for its end the search for the knowledge relative to the reproduction, the preservation, and the amelioration of the human race" (Pechin, _La Puericulture avant la Naissance_, These de Paris, 1908).
[5] In _La Grossesse_ (pp.

450 et seq.) Bouchacourt has discussed the problems of puericulture at some length.
[6] The importance of antenatal puericulture was fully recognized in China a thousand years ago.