not knowledge,
has not ideas or practical skill to equal the force of man. But
circumstances have favored the development of pure and lofty
emotion in advance of man. She has moral feeling, affectional
feeling, religious feeling, far in advance of man; her moral,
affectional, and religious intuitions are deeper and more
trustworthy than his. Here she is eminent, as he is in knowledge,
in ideas, in administrative skill.

I think man will always lead in affairs of intellect--of reason,
imagination understanding--he has the bigger brain; but that
woman will always lead in affairs of emotion--moral, affectional,
religious--she has the better heart, the truer intuition of the
right, the lovely, the holy. The literature of women in this
century is juster, more philanthropic, more religious, than that
of men. Do you not hear the cry which, in New England, a woman is
raising in the world's ears against the foul wrong which America
is working in the world? Do you not hear the echo of that woman's
voice come over the Atlantic--returned from European shores in
many a tongue--French, German, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Russian,
Dutch? How a woman touches the world's heart! because she speaks
justice, speaks piety, speaks love. What voice is strongest,
raised in continental Europe, pleading for the oppressed and
down-trodden? That also is a woman's voice!

Well, we want the excellence of man and woman both united;
intellectual power, knowledge, great ideas--in literature,
philosophy, theology, ethics--and practical skill; but we want
something better--the moral, affectional, religious intuition, to
put justice into ethics, love into theology, piety into science
and letters. Everywhere in the family, the community, the Church,
and the State, we want the masculine and feminine element
co-operating and conjoined. Woman is to correct man's taste, mend
his morals, excite his affections, inspire his religious
faculties. Man is to quicken her intellect, to help her will,
translate her sentiments to ideas, and enact them into righteous
laws. Man's moral action, at best, is only a sort of general
human providence, aiming at the welfare of a part, and satisfied
with achieving the "greatest good of the greatest number."
Woman's moral action is more like a specia