reasonable, and most profitable for us all is to come out of the shells of our sex in this field and be fused in a single human crucible, brimming with continuous activity and pressing toward general goals, one that secures for you women and for us a respected human standing and a settled position such as the individual needs in contemporary life, free from economic, social, and moral bonds and servitudes.

Woman's struggle in this station is the struggle of the individual, and it is a comprehensive, gen-eral struggle... As for her other struggle, it is one peculiar to her, a woman's struggle in every sense of the word, which she wages not with other people nor in a broad public field, but with herself, her passions, and her impulses, in a private, limited family and personal field.

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The sense of responsibility for this duty in the struggle varies with the variance of intellectual maturity, experience, and awareness of social needs. This holds true of men and of women alike. Tomorrow we shall observe that the greater share of this responsibility falls upon the educated, cultured woman, who occupies a professional standing in society and takes upon herself the leadership of women's battle and the carrying of its banner. In her striving, this woman will be more fortunate than man, wider in her field of action, and more effective than he. I do not say this out of favoritism or out of spite; it is a truth which, if woman carries on her striving upon a foundation of goodness, sincerity, and awareness, will appear plainly and clearly. Perhaps it is fortunate that the illiterate woman — who will at first remain outside the battle — is isolated from society, staying within her own four walls most of the time, content with what she has, peaceable, kind of heart, careful of her reputation and her good conduct; matters being

so, the educated woman cannot fail to find her field free of the rowdiness and disturbance which we see in the case of man... For the illiterate man is a man of rowdiness, disturbance, and quarrelsomeness, whom no thought of reputation restrains from meddling in everything, and whom no fear or regard keeps from aggression... He is forever out of doors, a commod-ity in the hand of a chieftain, a force in the hand of a despot — what are we to do with him?!...

Therefore I do not shrink at

all from expressing a personal opinion, which is that society as a whole, and men in particular, will find in woman's descent into the field and arena of the greater struggle a flourishing benefit and an ordering of morals, of habits, and of conduct...

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But this period will not last very long. The woman of whom we said that she is illiterate, or whom we earlier described

as belonging to the "lower classes" or the poor, will soon