As no trust is created, it would be superfluous to consider
whether, if the request of the testatrix were treated as a
command, one would then be indicated capable of enforcement
according to the rules of law.

_Bill dismissed._ [Signed:] MARCUS MORTON, _Chief-Justice_,

WALBRIDGE ABNER FIELD, CHARLES DEVENS,
WILLIAM ALLEN, CHARLES ALLEN,
WALDO COBURN, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Jr.

* * * * *

From these decisions our daughters should learn the importance of
having some knowledge of law. Had not Mrs. Eddy learned from
experience in her father's case that property could not be left in
trust to any societies except those called religious and
charitable, and made her bequest absolutely to persons, the gift of
$56,000 would have been lost to the woman suffrage movement. As it
was, nearly $10,000 was swallowed up in litigation to secure what
the donees did finally obtain. Considering that Mrs. Eddy[157] is
the only woman who has ever had both the desire and the power to
make a large bequest to this cause, its friends have great reason
to rejoice in her wisdom as well as her generosity.

Civilization would have been immeasurably farther advanced than it
now is, had the many rich women, who have left large bequests to
churches, and colleges for boys, concentrated their wealth and
influence on the education, elevation and enfranchisement of their
own sex. We trust that Mrs. Eddy's example may not be lost on the
coming generation of women.--[EDITORS.

FOOTNOTES:

[104] For details of early history see vol. I., chap. viii. See
also "Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement," Roberts Bros.,
Boston.

[105] As an original question, no friend of woman suffrage can deny
that it was a mean thing to put the word "male" into the fourteenth
amendment. It was, doubtless, wise to adopt that amendment. It was
an extension of the right of suffrage, and so far in the line of
American progress, yet it was also an implied denial of the
suffrage to women.--[Warrington in the _Springfield Republican_.

[106] See Vol. II., page 178.

[107] John Neal came from Maine; Nathaniel and Armenia White from
New Hampshire; Isabella Hooker from Connecticut; Thomas W.
Higginson from Rhode Island; and John G. Whittier, Samuel May, jr.,
Gilbert Haven, John T. Sargent, Frank W. Bird, Wendell Phillips,
William Lloyd Garrison, William