the infirm. And this organization is still
laboring to raise Lebanon's social level. Perfection belongs to God alone.
(2) The Lebanese woman is still isolated from real life, remote from society, with little acquaintance with, or reading of, what is written and published in newspapers, books, and magazines. If she reads, she reads only what is written about fashions, the cinema, and woman and the elections; and if she goes out, she goes out for amusement and diversion, attending neither literary gatherings nor circles of learning — and this because she has not been directed rightly in this respect, since the concern of the Lebanese home has been merely that its daughter learn foreign languages, or that she work for gain and profit in a factory or an office. This shows that literary and social consciousness in Lebanon is still in its cradle, and that material life has overwhelmed the life of letters, so that
neither girl nor boy applies himself to the study of literature, whether Arabic literature or foreign or a blend of the two.
We must open to our girls the doors of the public libraries, so that they may read the literature of the story, the theater, and society, taste the culture of East and West, and grasp real life with a great grasp, describing its pains and correcting its errors — thus affording us a lofty literature to rival the literature of the civilized nations.
(3) Perhaps the most prominent problem of upbringing, as I see it in the Lebanese home, is poverty, which begets ignorance — or say rather ignorance, which begets poverty. I mean both kinds of poverty, the material and the moral, and each has its evident effect upon upbringing. If the economic conditions of the home are not provided, it is impossible for the parents to take the means of rearing the child healthily, and this affects his growth and his bodily completeness, so that he grows up sickly, unable to face difficulties.
Likewise, if the relation between the parents does not prevail in an atmosphere of understanding and cooperation in knowledge, creed, and principle, the child's mentality is corrupted, and the parents' ignorance of these matters harms him grievously, so that by his disgraceful conduct he becomes a burden upon the homeland and society. And since the mother is the first agent in directing the child toward the highest ideals, it is self-evident that she should be educated and highly cultivated in order to be able to discharge this grave task.
(4) This is a belief that man stirs up among the campaigns he directs against woman, out of fear of her competing with him in his work. The Lebanese home, like every home, if it is provided with all the modern technical means of household management, and if its housewife is sensible and wise, knowing how to apportion her household tasks justly, then the man may rest assured that not one stone of
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