ABSTRACT
Spiritual power, as interpreted by positivism, begins with the influence of women in the family; it is afterwards molded into a system by thinkers, while the people are the guarantee for its political efficiency. Completing the sociological theory of the subject, people shall find that maternity, while it extends her sphere of moral influence, does not alter its nature. Positivism, however, from the completeness of its synthesis, and from the fact that its rules are invariably based on the laws of nature, will gain such influence and will find little difficulty in inducing all natures of delicate feeling to accept this additional obligation. As a mother, no less than as a wife, her position will be improved by positivism. She will have, almost exclusively, the direction of household education. Public education given subsequently will be, little but a systematic development of that which has been previously given at home.
