feet, if all the upper part is left unused? The flute, the
hautboy, the finer trumpet stops, all those stops that minister
to the intellect, the imagination, and the higher feelings--these
must be drawn, and the whole organ played from top to bottom!
(Applause.)

More than that, there are now coming up for adjudication public
questions of education. And who, by common consent, is the
educator of the world? Who has been? Schools are to be of more
importance than railroads--not to undervalue railroads. Books and
newspapers are to be more vital and powerful than exchequers and
banks--not to undervalue exchequers and banks. In other words, as
society ripens, it has to ripen in its three departments, in the
following order: First, in the animal; second, in the social; and
third, in the spiritual and moral. We are entering the last
period, in which the questions of politics are to be more and
more moral questions. And I invoke those whom God made to be
peculiarly conservators of things moral and spiritual to come
forward and help us in that work, in which we shall falter and
fail without woman. We shall never perfect human society without
her offices and her ministration. We shall never round out the
government, or public administration, or public policies, or
politics itself, until you have mixed the elements that God gave
to us in society--namely, the powers of both men and women.
(Applause.) I, therefore, charge my countrywomen with this _duty_
of taking part in public affairs in the era in which justice, and
humanity, and education, and taste, and virtue are to be more and
more a part and parcel of public procedure. * * * *

In such a state of society, then, as the present, I stand, as I
have said, on far higher ground in arguing this question than the
right of woman. That I believe in; but that is down in the
justice's court. I go to the supreme bench and argue it, and
argue it on the ground that the nation needs woman, and that
woman needs the nation, and that woman can never become what she
should be, and the nation can never become what it should be,
until there is no distinction made between the sexes as regards
the rights and duties of citizenship--until we come to the 28th
verse of the third chapter of Galatians. What is it? [turning to