Women and Economics Large Print

Since we have learned to study the development of human life as we study theevolution of species throughout the animal kingdom, some peculiar phenomenawhich have puzzled the philosopher and moralist for so long, begin to showthemselves in a new light. We begin to see that, so far from being inscrutableproblems, requiring another life to explain, these sorrows and perplexities of ourlives are but the natural results of natural causes, and that, as soon as we ascertainthe causes, we can do much to remove them.In spite of the power of the individual will to struggle against conditions, toresist them for a while, and sometimes to overcome them, it remains true that thehuman creature is affected by his environment, as is every other living thing. Thepower of the individual will to resist natural law is well proven by the life and deathof the ascetic. In any one of those suicidal martyrs may be seen the will, misdirected by the ill-informed intelligence, forcing the body to defy every naturalimpulse, -even to the door of death, and through i