s brothers and other relations. Her example has
strengthened me; you never would have had this next remark but
for Miss Anthony: Thirty-five years ago I read a graduating
essay. I knew I was doing an unwomanly thing, and in order to
preserve what little womanliness I might have left, when I got up
to read it I whispered the whole essay. I've quit that. Since I
made up my mind to be heard, I have been heard.... A great
progress of women has gone on and is going on. Men for the most
part are manageable; women are the converts needed. When women
have their minds made up to vote, it will be with them as it was
with me about being heard....

This is a new era for woman. If the larger sphere now open to her
is not a new discovery, it is at least a new testament. The day
will come that people will look back with shame on the time when
brains and virtue were shut away from the ballot-box, if they
belonged to a woman....

Miss Anna Caulfield (Mich.) pointed out The Achievements of Woman in
Art. Mrs. May Wright Sewall (Ind.) spoke eloquently on The True
Civilization of the World, saying in part:

In the new civilization the sense of personal responsibility is
strong; it respects the child's individuality and also recognizes
the unity of all educational agencies--kindergarten, school,
college and university.

There is also a new theology, in which individual conscience is
substituted for the dictates of authority, and which
distinguishes between metaphysical doctrine and practical
principle. It seeks the higher unity, all embracing.

The new political economy recognizes the right of the individual,
and the body politic as composed of units, each one of which must
be respected. Its whole effort is to preserve the rights of
employers and to give equal recognition to the employed; to unify
all those classes that have heretofore been kept divided.

The new civilization results from all these. The difficulties in
realizing this perfect unit arise from selfishness. We have long
recognized that individual selfishness is a defect, but national
selfishness has been for a long time extolled under the name of
patriotism, and has gone on cleaving great chasms between
different peoples. In the new civilization the individual will
recognize himself at his best in hi