This country, and nearly all the world, has innumerable homes in which the seed of revolution is sown in myriads of minds from the moment they are conceived. Revolted, horror-stricken mothers bear children whose coming birth they fear. A starved, stunted outlook is stamped upon their brains and bodies in the most intimate manner before they come into the world, so oriented towards it that they _must_ run counter to the healthy, happy constructive stream of human life. What wonder at the rotten conditions of our population when these are common experiences of the mothers of our race:-- For fifteen years I was in a very poor state of health owing to continual pregnancy. As soon as I was over one trouble it was started all over again.[10] [10] I refer the reader to that poignant book, _Maternity, Letters from Working Women_, collected by the Women’s Co-operative Guild. Bell, 1915. Again:-- During pregnancy I suffered much. When at the end of ten years I determined that this state of things should not go on any longer. Again:-- My grandmother had twenty children. Only eight lived to about fourteen years; only two to a good old age. Again:-- I cannot tell you all my sufferings during the time of motherhood. I thought, like hundreds of women to-day, that it was only natural, and that you had to bear it. I had three children and one miscarriage in three years. Need I go on? There lies the real root of revolution. The secret revolt and bitterness which permeates every fibre of the unwillingly pregnant and suffering mothers has been finding its expression in the lives and deeds of their children. We have been breeding revolutionaries through the ages and at an increasing rate since the crowding into cities began, and women were forced to bear children beyond their strength and desires in increasingly unnatural conditions. Also since women have heard rumours that such enslaved motherhood is not necessary, that the wise know a way of keeping their motherhood voluntary, the revolt in the mother has become conscious with consequent injury to the child. Increasingly, the first of baby’s rights is to be _wanted_.