rselves with the "moral education" of our children,
we ought to ask ourselves if we really love them and if we are sincere
in our wishes for their "morality."

Let us be practical. Fathers and mothers, what can you hope for from
your children? The European war is far less dangerous to their bodies
than the spiritual risks which they run. We must imagine a much
greater war, a universal one, to which all young men are called, and
where the survivors are pointed out as absolutely exceptional.
Therefore you are educating your sons for death. What, then, is the
use of troubling so much about them? Is it not useless to take care of
their soft hair, and their rosy nails, and the fresh and bewitching
beauty of their vigorous little bodies, if they are to die before
long?

Ah! all those who love children must fight in this deadly war, and
struggle for peace:

The creed which Mme. de Hericourt sets forth in her book, "_La Femme
Affranchie_," about the time of the French Revolution, is very
eloquent.

"Mothers, you admonish your children, saying, 'Do not tell
lies, because this is unworthy of a person who respects
himself. Do not steal: would you like it if people stole
your things? It is a dishonest thing to do. Do not oppress
those of your companions who are weaker than yourself, and do
not be rude to them, for that would be a cowardly act.' These
are excellent principles. But when the child has become a
young man his mother says, 'He must sow his wild oats.' And
sowing his wild oats means that he must perforce be a
seducer, an adulterer, and a frequenter of brothels. What? Is
this mother, who told her boy not to tell lies, the same
person who permits him now that he is a man, to betray a
woman like herself? And, although she taught her child not to
steal another child's toy, she thinks it lawful for her son
to rob a woman like herself of her life and her honor. And
she who advised him never to oppress the weak, now permits
him to range himself among the oppressors of a human being
whom society has made into a slave."

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These mothers acquiesce in the degrading fact which perverts all
humanity. There is a strong social movement to-day against the white
slave traffic; and at the same time the science of eugenics has arisen
which tends to protect the health of posterity.

These are excellent things. But the question which li