also a natural and inalienable right to the
normal development of his peculiar nature as man, where he
differs from woman. Each woman has just the same natural and
inalienable right to the normal development of her peculiar
nature as woman, and not man. All that is undeniable.

Now see what follows. Woman has the same individual right to
determine her aim in life, and to follow it; has the same
individual rights of body and of spirit--of mind and conscience,
and heart and soul; the same physical rights, the same
intellectual, moral, affectional, and religious rights, that man
has. That is true of womankind as a whole; it is true of Jane,
Ellen, and Sally, and each special woman that can be named.

Every person, man or woman, is an integer, an individual, a whole
person; and also a portion of the race, and so a fraction of
humankind. Well, the Rights of individualism are not to be
possessed, developed, used, and enjoyed, by a life in solitude,
but by joint action. Accordingly, to complete and perfect the
individual man or woman, and give each an opportunity to possess,
use, develop, and enjoy these rights, there must be concerted and
joint action; else individuality is only a possibility, not a
reality. So the individual rights of woman carry with them the
same domestic, social, ecclesiastical, and political rights, as
those of man.

The Family, Community, Church and State, are four modes of action
which have grown out of human nature in its historical
development; they are all necessary for the development of
mankind; machines which the human race has devised, in order to
possess, use, develop, and enjoy their rights as human beings,
their rights also as men.

These are just as necessary for the development of woman as of
man; and, as she has the same nature, right, and duty, as man, it
follows that she has the same right to use, shape, and control
these four institutions, for her general human purpose and for
her special feminine purpose, that man has to control them for
his general human purpose and his special masculine purpose. All
that is as undeniable as anything in metaphysics or mathematics.

If woman had been consulted, it seems to me theology would have
been in a vastly better state than it is now. I do not think that