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Parasitism (continued).
Is it to be, that, in the future, machinery and the captive motor-forces of nature are largely to take the place of human hand and foot in the labour of clothing and feeding the nations; are these branches of industry to be no longer domestic labours ?--then, we demand in the factory, the warehouse, and the field, wherever machinery has usurped our ancient labour-ground, that we also should have our place, as guiders, controllers, and possessors.

Is child-bearing to become the labour of but a portion of our sex ?--then we demand for those among us who are allowed to take no share in it, compensatory and equally honourable and important fields of social toil.

Is the training of human creatures to become a yet more and more onerous and laborious occupation, their education and culture to become increasingly a high art, complex and scientific ?--if so, then, we demand that high and complex culture and training which shall fit us for instructing the race which we bring into the world.

Is the demand for child-bearing to become so diminished that, even in the lives of those among us who are child-bearers, it shall fill no more than half a dozen years out of the three-score-and-ten of human life ?--then we demand that an additional outlet be ours which shall fill up with dignity and value the tale of the years not so employed.