26/27 It is antagonistic to personal ambition. It leaves her in middle life without an occupation. It keeps her out of the great movements of her day--gives her no part in the solution of the ethical and economical problems which affect her and her children. She declares that she wants fuller participation in life, and by life she seems to mean the elaborate machinery by which human wants are supplied and human beings kept in something like order; the movements of the market place, of politics, and of government. |