hose highest merit it is to equalize the people by
elevating the oppressed. But Paul taught no such doctrine.

The result of all this circumscription of woman has been to
enfeeble and misdirect her faculties, to weaken the influence of
her nature upon society and especially upon her offspring. Driven
from the thousand avenues to wealth and position open to man,
denied access to the best institutions of learning, permitted to
acquire only superficial accomplishments, she is ushered into
society at an age when her brothers are preparing to enter
colleges and halls of learning from which she is excluded, and
thus undeveloped and comparatively helpless, her instincts
vitiated and no freedom for her affinities, she is turned adrift
to encounter obstacles for which she is unprepared, and in the
severe conflict to barter her honor for subsistence; or if she
escape that horrible contingency, to exchange her beauty or her
services for a matrimonial establishment, and thus prepare to
perpetuate human degeneracy.

There are many exceptions to this statement, but the statement is
the rule. From these unequal and discordant relations, and the
feeble and restricted influence of the mother, spring generations
of children who are born constitutionally defective in the
feminine qualities of gentleness, purity, and love; and the utter
rejection of that element in the societary arrangements under
which they grow to manhood, aggravates their inherited
tendencies, until whole nations of warriors founding governments
of blood have filled the earth, and war and rapine have not only
become the occupation and the pastime of man, but have grown into
his religion and become incarnate in the Deities he worships.

It is thus that the seeds of violence and vice are sown with the
germs of the generations, and they spring to a frightful harvest
in each succeeding growth of the race. Millions of human beings
issue into life, pre-ordained--not in the theological, but in the
physiological sense--to violence and crime, and they go forth to
make their calling and election sure. From these the world
recruits its armies, renews its tyrants, refills its slave-pens
and its brothels, populates its prisons, alms-houses, and
asylums. It is in vain to hope for other results while woman