l human providence,
acting without general rules, but caring for each particular
case. We need both of these, the general and the special, to make
a total human providence.

If man and woman are counted equivalent--equal in rights, though
with diverse powers,--shall we not mend the literature of the
world, its theology, its science, its laws, and its actions too?
I can not believe that wealth and want are to stand ever side by
side as desperate foes; that culture must ride only on the back
of ignorance; and feminine virtue be guarded by the degradation
of whole classes of ill-starred men, as in the East, or the
degradation of whole classes of ill-starred women, as in the
West; but while we neglect the means of help God puts in our
power, why, the present must be like the past--"property" must be
theft, "law" the strength of selfish will, and
"Christianity"--what we see it is, the apology for every powerful
wrong.

* * * * *

To every woman let me say--Respect your nature as a human being,
your nature as a woman; then respect your rights, then remember
your duty to possess, to use, to develop, and to enjoy every
faculty which God has given you, each in its normal way.

And to men let me say--Respect, with the profoundest reverence,
respect the mother that bore you, the sisters who bless you, the
woman that you love, the woman that you marry. As you seek to
possess your own manly rights, seek also, by that great arm, by
that powerful brain, seek to vindicate her rights as woman, as
your own as man. Then we may see better things in the Church,
better things in the State, in the Community, in the Home. Then
the green shall show what buds it hid, the buds shall blossom,
the flowers bear fruit, and the blessing of God be on us all.

REMINISCENCES OF PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS.

BY E. C. S.

Hearing that my friend had returned from Europe too ill to leave her
room, I hastened to her charming home in the suburbs of Providence,
Rhode Island. There in her pleasant chamber, bright with the sunshine
of a clear December day,[53] surrounded with her books and pictures of
her own painting, looking out on an extensive lawn, grand old trees,
and the busy city in the distance, we passed three happy days together
reviewing our own lives, the progress of th