ABSTRACT
Some new conceptions which are destined, for good or for evil, to “ Sweep through the dull, dense world, compelling there All new successions to the forms they wear ”. As a movement, it grew up out of the Great War, though individuals had played with the idea long before. But in 1918 four women and two men, all concerned in one way or another with economic study and social reform and all keen feminists, took to meeting in a newly formed club in Soho for the purpose of working out a scheme of family endowment. It advocated a national scheme of allowances for all mothers and children, paid for by an ad hoc income tax. The allowances should be at the same rate for all teachers and for each child; they should be sufficiently high to aid substantially the costs of maintenance and education but not to cover them entirely.
