Like every canalisation or drainage of the mighty river system of the life of human feeling, this program is direct and conclusive. One may easily understand that masculine brains, dominated by a passion for logic, could devise it; but if we hear it advocated by multitudes of women, then we recognise how harassed by the fourfold burden of family provider, child bearer, child educator, and housekeeper the poor women must be who can smilingly assent to the foregoing picture of the future. And yet there is another possible ideal of the future which can be realised as soon as production is determined, no longer by private capitalistic interests, but by social-political interests. Women will then be employed in industrial fields of work where their powers are _as productive as possible_ with the least possible loss in time and strength; above all in those fields where the work requires no _long_ preparation and the dexterity does not suffer by _interruptions_. Before the years in which the _occupation is motherhood_, and after these years, woman can still be always remunerated by an economic wage; during the years on the contrary in which motherhood is the vocation, she can be remunerated _by the state_. It is only necessary that women and men _will_ a new order whereby in the future we attain the following conditions: A _Society_, in which the welfare of the new generation is the centre to which all social-political plans, at heart, are aiming. _Children_ born of parents whose souls and bodies are qualified and prepared for a worthy parenthood and who can thus create for their children sound and beautiful conditions of life. _Mothers_ won back to the husbands, the children, the homes, but under such circumstances that _as free human personalities they perform the most important work of society_: the bearing and rearing of children. _Fathers_ with time and leisure to share with the mothers the task of education and to share with them and the children the joys of the home life, as well as of the remainder of existence. This ideal of the future state takes in my imagination the form of a varied Italian garden with a wide outlook upon the great sea. The other ideal of the future, on the contrary, is to me like a coal mine wherein all spiritual and social vegetation is petrified so that it now serves only as motive-power for machines. * * * * *