justice, little philanthropy, little piety.
Selfishness preponderates everywhere in Christendom--individual,
domestic, social, ecclesiastical, national selfishness. It is
preached as gospel and enacted as law. It is thought good
political economy for a strong people to devour the weak nations;
for "Christian" England and America to plunder the "heathen" and
annex their land; for a strong class to oppress and ruin the
feeble class; for the capitalists of England to pauperize the
poor white laborer; for the capitalists of America to enslave the
poorer black laborer; for a strong man to oppress the weak men;
for the sharper to buy labor too cheap, and sell its product too
dear, and so grow rich by making many poor. Hence, nation is
arrayed against nation, class against class, man against man.
Nay, it is commonly taught that mankind is arrayed against God,
and God against man; that the world is a universal discord: that
there is no solidarity of man with man, of man with God. I fear
we shall never get far beyond this theory and this practice,
until woman has her natural rights as the equal of man, and takes
her natural place in regulating the affairs of the family, the
community, the Church, and the State. It seems to me God has
treasured up a reserved power in the nature of woman to correct
many of those evils which are Christendom's disgrace to-day.

Circumstances help or hinder our development, and are one of the
two forces which determine the actual character of a nation or of
mankind, at any special period. Hitherto, amongst men,
circumstances have favored the development of only intellectual
power, in all its forms--chiefly in its lower forms. At present,
mankind, as a whole, has the superiority over womankind, as a
whole, in all that pertains to intellect, the higher and the
lower. Man has knowledge, has ideas, has administrative skill;
enacts the rules of conduct for the individual, the family, the
community, the Church, the State, and the world. He applies these
rules of conduct to life, and so controls the great affairs of
the human race. You see what a world he has made of it. There is
male vigor in this civilization, miscalled "Christian"; and in
its leading nations there are industry and enterprise, which
never fail. There is science