d social life,
is timely, wise, and practical; that it is authorized by all the
essential principles of Republican institutions, and sanctioned
by the spirit of the Christian religion; and finally that it is
but a carrying on to completeness of a reform, already begun, by
legal provisions, in the most advanced States of the Union.

_Resolved_, That the design of all true legislation should be the
elevation of every member of the community--and that the
violation of this legitimate design, in depriving woman of her
just and equal rights, is not only highly injurious to her, but
by reason of the equilibrium which pervades all existence, that
man, too, is impeded in his progress by the very chains which
bind woman to the lifeless skeleton of feudal civilization.

_Resolved_, That we do not ask for woman's political, civil,
industrial, and social equality with man, in the spirit of
antagonism, or with a wish to produce separate and conflicting
interests between the sexes, but because the onward progress of
society and the highest aspirations of the human race, demand
that woman should everywhere be recognized as the co-equal and
co-sovereign of man.

_Resolved_, That women justly claim an equally free access with
men, to the highest means of mental, moral, and physical culture,
provided in seminaries, colleges, professional and industrial
schools; and that we call upon all friends of progress and upon
the Legislature of New York, in establishing and endowing
institutions, to favor pre-eminently those which seek to place
males and females on a level of equal advantages in their system
of education.

_Resolved_, That, inasmuch as universal experience proves the
inseparable connection between dependence and degradation--while
it is plain to every candid observer of society that women are
kept poor, by being crowded together, to compete with and
undersell one another in a few branches of labor, and that from
this very poverty of women, spring many of the most terrible
wrongs and evils, which corrupt and endanger society: therefore
do we invite the earnest attention of capitalists, merchants,
traders, manufacturers, and mechanics, to the urgent need, which
everywhere exists, of opening to women new avenues of honest and
honorable employm