gnificently. I never go over this continent and
see what men have done, that I do not feel like bowing my head in
reverence to their wisdom, their strength, their power, and I
think the nearest thing we see to divinity is the incarnation of
the God-head in a grand good man.

But there are other forces which must be brought into subjection
to humanity before we reach the highest development, and those
are the moral and spiritual forces. That is woman's share
largely, not that I exempt man, but pre-eminently woman is the
teacher of the race; in virtue of her motherhood she is the
character builder; she forms the soul life; she rears the
generations. It is not part of woman's work to contend with man
for supremacy over the material forces. It was never told to
woman that she should earn her bread by the sweat of her brow.
That was man's curse. He was to earn his bread and woman's too,
if he faithfully performed his duty, and we are not "dependents"
even if he does that. I never allow a man to say in my presence
that he "supports" his wife, and I want every woman to take the
same position. I would correct any man and tell him he was
mistaken in his phraseology if he should say anything of that
kind. You have something different to do, my sisters. You shall
hate evil, was said to woman, and evil shall hate you. There
shall go forth from you an influence which shall ultimately
exterminate evil.... The men of this nation would never have made
the success they have in the material world, if some stronger
force had limited them on all sides.

I said a moment ago that I do not like the idea of dependence of
women on men, or the dependence of men on women. I do not like
the word independence, but I do like the word interdependence. It
is said of this beautiful country, "United we stand, divided we
fall." It is the same with men and women. Men without women would
go back to barbarism, and women without men would be most
frivolous and vain. If we work not in competition but in
co-operation and harmony we shall bring the race to its ultimate
inheritance, which is rulership over the universe.

Now to deprive woman of the right to express her thought with
authority at the ballot-box in regard to the laws under which she
is governed, puts a mark of imb