, a long and thoughtful paper in which she said:

Those people who declaim on the inequalities of sex, the
disabilities and limitations of one as against the other, show
themselves as ignorant of the first principles of life as would
that philosopher who should undertake to show the comparative
power of the positive as against the negative electricity, of the
centrifugal as against the centripetal force, the attraction of
the north as against the south end of the magnet. These great
natural forces must be perfectly balanced or the whole material
world would relapse into chaos. Just so the masculine and
feminine elements in humanity must be exactly balanced to redeem
the moral and social world from the chaos which surrounds it.
One might as well talk of separate spheres for the two ends of
the magnet as for man and woman; they may have separate duties in
the same sphere, but their true place is together everywhere.
Having different duties in the same sphere, neither can succeed
without the presence and influence of the other. To restore the
equilibrium of sex is the first step in social, religious and
political progress. It is by the constant repression of the best
elements in humanity, by our false customs, creeds and codes,
that we have thus far retarded civilization....

There would be more sense in insisting on man's limitations
because he can not be a mother, than on woman's because she can
be. Surely maternity is an added power and development of some of
the most tender sentiments of the human heart and not a
"limitation." "Yes," says another pertinacious reasoner, "but it
unfits woman for much of the world's work." Yes, and it fits her
for much of the world's work; a large share of human legislation
would be better done by her because of this deep experience....

If one-half the effort had been expended to exalt the feminine
element that has been made to degrade it, we should have reached
the natural equilibrium long ago. Either sex, in isolation, is
robbed of one-half its power for the accomplishment of any given
work. This was the most fatal dogma of the Christian
religion--that in proportion as men withdrew from all
companionship with women, they could get nearer to God, grow more
like the Divine Ideal.

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