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A. S. BARNES activity Ameri asked average baby become better big family birth birthrate born cent CHAPTER chil child childbirth childless Church civilization classes Cloth club decline desire doctor domestic dren early earn economic England English factory foreign freedom girl give growing housekeeper human husband Ida Husted Harper idle women immigration income increase industrial infanticide infants instinct intelligent interest John Scudder labor large family less limit Malthus marriage married married couple millions moral mother motherhood nation native native American natural never North American Review number of children occupation pain parents patients physician poor population poverty practice present produce question race suicide reproduction Richmond Mayo-Smith Robert Hunter says Slav small families social society suffer tendency thing thousand tion to-day wage-earning wages wealth wife wives Women's Suffrage workers York young
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Page 147 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 52 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Page 231 - They are beaten men from beaten races; representing the worst failures in the struggle for existence. Centuries are against them, as centuries were on the side of those who formerly came to us.
Page 326 - A grave peril to the Republic would be a citizenship too ignorant to understand or too vicious to appreciate the great value and beneficence of our institutions and laws, and against all who come here to make war upon them our gates must be promptly and tightly closed.
Page 79 - If a woman becomes weary or at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it...
Page 327 - We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind. The need is to devise some system by which undesirable immigrants shall be kept out entirely, while desirable immigrants are properly distributed throughout the country.
Page 330 - Sparta; the legislator wanted to make the whole State hardy and temperate, and he has carried out his intention in the case of the men, but he has neglected the women, who live in every sort of intemperance and luxury.
Page 213 - ... chance in life is not to bring it up in luxury, but to see that it has the kind of training that will give it strength of character. Even apart from the vital question of national life, and regarding only the individual interest of the children themselves, happiness in the true sense is a hundredfold more apt to come to any given member of a healthy family of healthy-minded children, well brought up, well educated, but taught that they must shift for themselves, must win their own way, and by...
Page 229 - The higher civilization has a moral right to triumph over the lower, for it is in this way that the world progresses. The duty of every nation to humanity is to see to it that the higher does triumph over the lower. But it performs this duty best by preserving its own civilization against the disintegrating forces of barbarism.