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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 78
Herbert Spencer.—
Herbert Spencer.—
"To tens of thousands that are killed add hundreds of thousands that survive with feeble constitutions and mil ions that grow up with constitutions not so strong as they should be, and you will have some idea of the curse inflicted on their offspring by parents ignorant of the laws of life."
Herbert Spencer, commenting half a century ago on the fact that there was nothing in the scheme of education for girls that would help to fit them for motherhood.