Voice of Woman

and human brotherhood.

Al-Khansa was a "woman" and a poet,

who lived in the Jahiliyya to praise her brother Sakhr for his generosity, his courage, and his hospitality to guests. So her effect remained limited, within that heedless milieu. But when she learned, in Islam, and became a "mother," raising for the homeland a generation of her sons — and every mother is a queen... crowned in her own home — and her sons fell as martyrs for the sake of that nation, al-Khansa became a world heroine, the nerves of the bereaved mother sustaining her to say: Praise be to God, who honored me by their slaying...! And the effect of this "mother-queen" has extended through men's souls from that day to this day, and perfumes the world with the fragrance of heroism!

From here woman must enter the sanctuary of... history — through this wide door: a door wide enough for all who enter, men and women alike, and over which the various theories and philosophies keep their vigil. Its first quality is comprehensiveness, and its second quality is humanity.

And perhaps our great philosopher, in his satisfaction at the emancipation of "the learned woman," is announcing his satisfaction at her attainment of the rank of the human being conscious of his own truth, thanks to that learning. And learning entails belief in the right of others to the same liberty that one enjoys oneself. For liberty, like love, cannot be divided. And if we divide it in spite of itself, and in spite of right, liberty turns either into chaos or into tyranny — just as love, if divided, turns into fanaticism or into dissolution.

And upon this, we hope the great philosopher will say, on some coming occasion, to the emancipated woman in certain countries — where she tyrannizes even to the enslaving of man — that her emancipation, she being half of humanity, does not by any obligation mean the enslavement of its other half. Otherwise the fate of the family — which is the backbone of society — after the smashing of paternal authority, would be a dark fate indeed.

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Sunbeam COFFEEMASTER — for coffee

Sunbeam WAFFLE BAKER — for cakes

Sunbeam Radiant Control TOASTER — for toasting bread

Sunbeam EGG COOKER — for boiling eggs

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