sm,
and told England what she means and what she wants: France that
has construed England to herself, and interpreted to her what she
was blindly reaching out for; when in that very France, at the
fountain-head of that eighteenth century of civil progress, it
was in the saloons of woman that man did his thinking, and it was
under the brilliant inspiration of her society that that mighty
revolution in the knowledge and science of civil affairs was
wrought. In this country, too, at this hour, woman does as much
to give the impulse to public opinion as man does.

Wherever I find silent power I want recognition of the
responsibility. I am not in favor of a power behind the throne. I
do not want half the race concealed behind the curtain and
controlling without being responsible. Drag them to the light,
hold them up as you do men to the utmost study of public
questions, and to a personal responsibility for their public
settlement. Corruption--it often takes the very form of the
passions of woman. In Paris, to-day, we are told, when the
government approaches a man, the way is, not to give him wealth
for his own enjoyment, but to dower his daughter. It is the pride
of woman through which they reach him. Drag that woman forward on
the platform of public life; give to her manifest ability a fair
field, let her win wealth by her own exertions, not by the
surrender of principle in the person of her husband; and although
my friend doubts it, I believe, when you put the two sexes
harmoniously in civil life, you will secure a higher state of
civilization--not because woman is better, not because she is
more merciful, or more just, or more pure than man, as man
naturally, but because God meant that a perfect human being
should be made up of man and woman allied, and it is only when
the two march side by side on the pathway of civilization that
the harmonious development of the race begins.

Then, again, you can not educate woman, in the sense that we use
education. She has no motive. As my friend said, when she
marries, education ceases. At that age the education of man
commences: he has wealth, ambition, social position, as his
stimulus: he knows that by keeping his mind on the alert he earns
them all. You furnish a woman with books--you give her no