, literature, legislation,
agriculture, manufactures, mining, commerce, such as the world
never saw. With the vigor of war, the Anglo-Saxon now works the
works of peace. England abounds in wealth--richest of lands; but
look at her poor, her vast army of paupers, two million strong,
the Irish whom she drives with the hand of famine across the sea.
Martin Luther was right when he said: "The richer the nation, the
poorer the poor." Look at the cities of England and America. What
riches, what refinement, what culture of man and woman too! Ay;
but what poverty, what ignorance, what beastliness of man and
woman too! The Christian civilization of the nineteenth century
is well summed up in London and New York--the two foci of the
Anglo-Saxon tribe, which control the shape of the world's
commercial ellipse. Look at the riches and the misery; at the
"religious enterprise" and the heathen darkness; at the virtue,
the decorum, and the beauty of woman well-born and well bred; and
at the wild sea of prostitution, which swells and breaks and
dashes against the bulwarks of society--every ripple was a woman
once!

Oh, brother-men, who make these things, is this a pleasant sight?
Does your literature complain of it--of the waste of human life,
the slaughter of human souls, the butchery of woman? British
literature begins to wail, in "Nicholas Nickleby" and "Jane Eyre"
and "Mary Barton" and "Alton Locke," in many a "Song of the
Shirt"; but the respectable literature of America is deaf as a
cent to the outcry of humanity expiring in agonies. It is busy
with California, or the Presidency, or extolling iniquity in high
places, or flattering the vulgar vanity which buys its dross for
gold. It can not even imitate the philanthropy of English
letters; it is "up" for California and a market. Does not the
Church speak?--the English Church, with its millions of money;
the American, with its millions of men--both wont to bay the moon
of foreign heathenism? The Church is a dumb dog, that can not
bark, sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. It is a church
without woman, believing in a male and jealous God, and rejoicing
in a boundless, endless hell!

Hitherto, with woman, circumstances have hindered the development
of intellectual power, in all its forms. She has