SOURCE: A review of The Renaissance of Motherhood, in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XX, No. 4, January, 1915, pp. 541-43.

In the following review, Bellamy provides a short summary and a favorable review of The Renaissance of Motherhood.

The author condenses the thoughts of [The Renaissance of Motherhood] into the following words which appear in the preface:

In this book I have spoken of the social means possible for calling forth a renaissance of motherhood. I have proposed the study of eugenics; a year of social service as preparation for motherhood; state pensions for mothers.… But the real renaissance must come through an education of the feelings.… No renaissance is possible before mothers and teachers… prepare the girls' hearts for love and motherhood.… And then will come indeed the new religion of the new century, the century of the child, now only a hope in the soul of...