[815] DIKE, "Some Aspects of the Divorce Question," _Princeton Rev._, March, 1884, 180. Compare ALLEN, "The New England Family," _New Englander_, March, 1882, 146 ff.; CREPAZ, _Die Gefahren der Frauen-Emancipation_, 24 ff.
[816] KUCZYNSKI, "Fecundity of the Native and Foreign Born Pop. of Mass.," _Quart. Jour. of Economics_, XVI, 1-36; CRUM, "The Birth-Rate in Mass.," _ibid._, XI, 248-65; DUMONT, "Essai sur le natalité en Mass.," _Jour. de la soc. stat. de Paris_, XXXVIII (1897), 332-53, 385-95; XXXIX (1898), 64-99; MOLINARI, "Decline of the French Population," _Jour. of the Royal Stat. Soc._, LIII, 183-97; MAYO-SMITH, _Statistics and Sociology_, 67 ff.; USSHER, _Neo-Malthusianism_, 137-64; EDSON, "Women of Today," _North Am. Rev._, CLVII, 446 ff.
[817] Sometime, it is to be hoped, society may seriously take in hand the problem of restraining the propagation of criminals, dependents, and the other unfit: see WARNER, _American Charities_, 132, 133.
[818] WILLCOX, "A Study of Vital Statistics," in _Pol. Sci. Quart._, VIII, 76, 77; OGLE, "On Marriage-Rates and Marriage-Ages," _Jour. of the Royal Stat. Soc._, LIII, 272 ff.; KUCZYNSKI, "Fecundity of the Native and Foreign Born Pop. in Mass.," _Quart. Jour. of Economics_, XVI, 1-36; MAYO-SMITH, _Statistics and Sociology_, 103 ff., 124; CRUM, "The Marriage Rate in Mass.," _Pub. of Am. Stat. Assoc._, IV, 331 ff.; WALLACE, "Human Selection," _Fort. Rev._, XLVIII, 335 ff.
[819] STRAHAN, _Marriage and Disease_, 245 ff., giving statistics. _Cf._ EDSON, "The Evils of Early Marriages," _North Am. Rev._, CLVIII, 230-34; USSHER, _Neo-Malthusianism_, 213 ff.; WALLACE, "Human Selection," _Fort. Rev._, XLVIII, 333 ff.; LEGOUVÉ, _Hist. morale des femmes_, 74-84.
It is not marriage or maternity which educated women are shunning; but they are declining to view marriage as their sole vocation or to become merely child-bearing animals. Let us not worry about the destiny of college women.[820] It is simply wrong wedlock which they are avoiding. They have, suggests Muirhead, a careful regard for the "kind" of marriage. They are determined to have only "the genuine article." They "look in marriage not only for the old fashioned 'union of hearts,' but for the union of heart and head in some serious interest which will survive the mere attractions of sex and form a solid bond of union even in the absence of others which, like the birth of children, depend on fortune." So "far from being hostile" to the family, "they are only preparing the way for a purer and more beneficent form of family life." The "maternal instinct is happily not confined to the uneducated."[821] The rise of a more refined sentiment of love has become at once a check and an incentive to marriage.[822][820] See especially the excellent paper of MARY ROBERTS SMITH, "Statistics of College and Non-College Women," _Pub. of the Am. Stat. Assoc._, VII, 1-26, whose conclusions support the view taken in the text; and SIDGWICK, _Health Statistics of Women Students of Cambridge and Oxford and Their Sisters_ (Cambridge, 1890), who reaches similar general results. _Cf._ THWING, "What Becomes of College Women?" _North Am. Rev._, CLXI, 546-53, taking a very favorable view of the influence of higher education on woman in her domestic relations; and SHINN, "The Marriage Rate of College Women," _Century_, L, 946-48. Consult also the articles of F. M. ABBOTT, C. S. ANGSTMAN, G. E. GARDNER, and F. FRANKLIN mentioned in the Bibliographical Index, IV; and read CLARA E. COLLET'S "Prospects of Marriage for Women," _Nineteenth Century_, XXXI, 537-52.