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a change in the relations
to justify the serious attentirn
The inventions and discoveries in mechanics
so deeply affected the industrial life of men ht
of women. This industrial movement has been acc<
superinduoed , an equally remarkable advance in v- ‘ .ec
of womenand the result has been the inevitable broadening c“
ities of women by linking the wider interests of society +1
interests of the home, which in preceding ages was alas”
\field of nomen's labor. The mere statistical fact that in in
\Ehere are more than five millions of women and girls engaged
earning outSlée of their homes indicates the immensity of *3
side 0f the movement. Although conservatism has opposed this grant
elnrgfint at every step, it has bad to yield to necessity, a stronger {true
I itself; and the present day 8688 W0mtr's broadened activities intrsnnxsn
untrammelled in almost every direction, and yearly jntranchjyg ghfig-
selves more firmly in custom and law. In only one directjfp +2,
ress of women has not been commensurate w€¢3 :33:
in other fields; in the right of self~gov¢gn
in the making of the laws they must obey fiuf‘
Itaxes they must paytheir position is out of all harmony with thei?

gosition in all other social and legal relations. Sufficient Tfihr
this is seen in the fact that there is no opening for individuai

gaining an entrance into poli ical rights. They are gnardrd s.

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Political power,originally in the hands of a few men only, has been
given to nearly all men by a succession of extensions granted by the rul-
ing classes, chiefly because the balance of physical force had passed over
to the unprivileged classes. There has been a tendency in some quarters
to draw a parallel between these extensions of the franchise and that

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which we desire to have made to women.Such a parallelism 3:11:11; a man-
ifest disadvantage to the prospect of our success, because the argument
of force can never be made on the side of women; and because it allows the
implication that without compulsion men will be reluctant to share polit-
ical power with women. But this parallelism does not exist, and an attempt
to draw it serves to obscure the real nature of this movement and the means
whereby it is ultimately to obtain success.

The influences and arguments to be used to gain the extension of suf-
frage from men to women are wholly different from those which have been
used to gain its extension from a privileged class of men to other men
less privileged, or to men of al“r races} er to
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one cannot gain or lose without the on? "; in contradistinction to classes,
or races, or nations, which are ,-;a?“ a , and have existed and flour-
ished, or decayed and become a. i:ct,m' bout appreciably affecting others.
One class,or race,or nation, a~ w w’ronger than another, may be able to
overcome the resistance of thu :f «r -“d pursue its own interests regard-

less of the welfare of the other, flat F0 with men and women; the relation

between them is vital, and tkly mus? .se or fall together.

 

 proclaim that we base our ar:ument on the principles of the Decla—
ration of Independence. Those principles are so broad that they had to
be uttered in generic terms; and no sound reasoning can limit them to one
half of the race. We should hold up to view consistently that our object
is one whose attainment is as full of benefit to men as to women.

Any social system founded on a theory designed for the elevation of one
sex above the other is altogether false and delusive to the expectations
built upon it. For the human race is dual and heredity keeps the stock
common from which both men and women spring. Since the common stock is
improved and invigorated by the acquired qualities of individuals without
regard to sex; and as acquired qualities are impartegvggre widely and per—
manently by ideas than by parenthood, it is to the advantage of both that
all possibilities of deve10pment shall be extended to both sexes. All
that woman has lost by social systems which denied to her education and
the free expression of her genius in art, literature or statemanshiphas been
lost to man also because it has dimirjeoed its inheritable riches of the
nature from which he draws his existrexwt he has been less, though unham~
pared by the shackles which bound her, 2 ~a~eo she has been less. The world
has not more occasion to rejoice in ft» “riuhphs of his genius in freedom

‘5 ”itiss *6 here in bonds. How often

‘ecet‘f 'flfi {$3323 cannot receive his ideas
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excellent qualities of mind and charaeter which his people possess in
smaller degree, yet sufficiently to enable them to understand and appreci—
ate their greatness in him? What kind of a man can be great among a nation,
for instance, of Hottentots? Were it possible for a Shakspeare or a Newton
to be born among them would they know that he was great? So men of genius
have arisen in ages when the popular mind could not appreciate them; and

such men, men in advance of their age, have dies without their-genius fruc—

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Whilst it might have blessed the race'if similar minded women who probably

existed could have helped to cultivate the popular mind into a fruitful soil
for the reception of their genius. Christopher Columbus found but one sym:
pathetic mind in all the world who was at the same time willing and able to
assist his genius, and the woman, Isabella of Spain, made his discovery of
America possible.
The duality of
hHeredity, in which the masculine and feminine influences are equal fac-
tors, is not the only interdependence which unites men and women. Sex is
a limitation which diversifies whilst at the same time it unites them;
though nature has given to each the elements of all human qualities , she
has given them in such proportion that the two halves are not similar units
but each is the complement of the other. The qualities of each are so accus
rately balanced that only together can they make a whole humanity; as in
the musical scale there is a wide middle register which the male and female
voices Sound with equal ease, but running oh one side into the base, which
grows more difficult and finally impossible terthefemale voice , and on the
other hint into the treble, which grows more difficult and finally impos-
sible for the male voice, but both necessary for musical completeness. Thus
men and women are halves of a dual nature and counterparts of each other.
Human society at all historical periods and under all its various forms
23$“Itant of the exactly balaroed masculine and feminine forces; and
therefore every social system, whether ’t be good or bad, has at least thi-
element of Justice in it, that it i vitally suitable to the requirements
of both sexes, because the mascul‘ e .«d feminine forces, being equal and
counterparts, could not settle in: mg,.‘ibtium until this result was at—
tained. Nor can a social systen 3 r11 1: ,onger than it suits the condi-
tions of its two factirs. For Ll:re is such absolute adjustment between the
individualities of the tqo Su2ar that a variation in either is followed by

a commensurate variation in * straw with infallible accuracy. It is said

of Cuvier, the great natural;:‘, o.~t from a single fossil bone he could

 

 the whole anatomy if an extinct animal. 80 from the women of
srfficient intelligence could depict what the men would be, or from
the men what the women would be. The sexes are reflections of each other,
of which
from contemplation either may gain in some points a juster selfbknowledge
than even by selflexamination, as a man looks in a mirror to see his own
face and learns the aspect of features he would not otherwise know.

Since they are counterparts there should be a broader sympathy, a nobler
pride, a deeper self—respect in each than can be reached by either sex con-
sidering itself separately; for each may know that it possesses the comple-
ment of the qualities it observes in the other. A virtue, a superior ex-
cellence, a splendor of development of whatever sort which appears in the
one does not disparage or overshadow the other, but rather is a source of
equal pride in both, since it could not exist if in both there was not the
same potentiality. Women admire the dashing and adventurous courage in
men which enables them to go forth to meet danger or hardship; but such
men cannot exist unless in the women of their race there is the firm spirit
which endures difficulties and danger without depression. Nor can either
sex deserve shame or reproach alone. V, ~, weakness , folly, it matters

not in which they appear, are but as sgzp1cri a“ diseasewhich permeates the

wholeand for which {he whole is equal], Tfisj ”: ble. Sometimes men, with

:irs of sug-‘ criig, charge our sex wi‘h v 'i_ ass and frivolity. It would

he wholesome ” ,~ to lay to hear“ 1*? Li women are silly and frivolous
it is because they are really like me: a. “7 seer perhaps because through
a weak-headex remit“ there are men nh~ f»rl flattered by the favorahle
centres sue: women make to themsr’ves. its silliest women are not too

ts unde arena his to apply Such “ia‘tery , and after all their silliu

is the ff iing chanterpart ts men‘s pqu vanity.

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