"In the present day," he went on--"there are a number of females
clamouring like unnatural hens in a barn-yard about their 'rights' and
'wrongs.' Their greatest right, their highest privilege, is to guide and
guard the souls of men. This, they for the most part, throw away as
worthless. Aristocratic women, royal women even, hand over the care of
their children to hired attendants and inferiors, and then are surprised
and injured if those children turn out to be either fools or
blackguards. If I were controller of the State, I would make it a law
that every mother should be bound to nurse and guard her children
herself as nature intended, unless prevented by ill-health, in which
case she would have to get a couple of doctor's certificates to certify
the fact. Otherwise, any woman refusing to comply with the law should be
sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour. This would bring them to
their senses. The idleness, wickedness, extravagance and selfishness of
women, make men the boors and egotists they are."