Excerpt from The National Review, Vol. 8: September to February, 1886-7 It is not only because Of the preponderance Of women in England, and the consequent need for bread-winning on their own account, that the new school of moral, amazons has arisen. It is not because all their own Specialized Ofiices are filled that they have invaded those of men - forced into imitation because compelled to compete. The cause Of the change lies deeper than that. The very virtues, such as unselfishness, patience, devotion, Without which the family cannot be preserved, are dying out with the love for family life characteristic of modern times. They are repudiated by women themselves as crosses, not crowns; and the full, free, energetic individualism, with the excitement and the struggle of a man's career, seems to them infinitely higher, as well as more alluring, than the duties and pleasures of the home. They are discontented with all they have and are, desiring only that which they have not and ought not to be. In the lower classes, women prefer to be field-hands, hop-pickers, pit-brow women, or factory hands of any kind, rather than to do house-work or look after the children. They prefer to gain rather than to save; even though their expenditure through waste, substitution, and loss goes beyond what it would be if they kept at home to mind and mend and manage for the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.