; more beautiful than the Egyptian, than the Greek, the early
Italian, than all women of past centuries--the highest intelligence in
the freest body!"

If the woman's movement means anything, it means that women are
demanding everything. They will not exchange one place for another, nor
give up one right to pay for another, but they will achieve all rights
to which their bodies and brains give them an implicit title. They will
have a larger political life, a larger motherhood, a larger social
service, a larger love, and they will reconstruct or destroy
institutions to that end as it becomes necessary. They will not be
content with any concession or any triumph until they have conquered all
experience.

CHAPTER V

BEATRICE WEBB AND EMMA GOLDMAN

The careers of these two women serve admirably to exhibit the woman's
movement in still another aspect, and to throw light upon the essential
nature of woman's character. These careers stand in plain contrast.
Beatrice Webb has compiled statistics, and Emma Goldman has preached the
gospel of freedom. It remains to be shown which is the better and the
more characteristically feminine gift to the world.

Beatrice Potter was the daughter of a Canadian railway president. Born
in 1858, she grew up in a time when revolutionary movements were in the
making. She was a pupil of Herbert Spencer, and it was perhaps from him
that she learned so to respect her natural interest in facts that the
brilliancy of no generalization could lure her into forgetting them. At
all events, she was captured permanently by the magic of facts. She
studied working-class life in Lancashire and East London at first hand,
and in 1885 joined Charles Booth in his investigations of English social
conditions. These investigations (which in my amateur ignorance I always
confused with those of General Booth of the Salvation Army!) were
published in four large volumes entitled "Life and Labor of the People."
Miss Potter's special contributions were articles on the docks, the
tailoring trade, and the Jewish community. Later she published a book on
"The Cooeperative Movement in Great Britain." Then, in 1892, she married
Sidney Webb, a man extraordinarily of her own sort, and became
confirmed, if such a thing were necessary, in her statistical habit of
mind.

Meanwhile, in 1883, the Fabian Society had been founded. But first a
word about statistics. "Statistics" does not mean a long list of
figures. It mea