She would be in a position to use her best judgment and marry the man of her choice, one whom she both loved and respected.

Without doubt the loveless marriage is responsible for more of the miseries and social evils than any other cause. Some, with Tolstoi, say, "than all other causes." One of the natural outcomes of the loveless marriage is race-suicide. This must be self-evident to any thinking person. Just the reverse of this would prove true with the woman who loves her husband; she will not be content without children. The harmonious relationship between husband and wife is more fully assured and the home life more complete and rounded out with children. The mutual giving of love and respect tends to make her a more intelligent and capable mother.

The fruit of a true union between men and women must eventually make a paradise of this earth. The world needs this at-one-ment between men and women far more than anything else. From it will come a higher civilization, one in which the "brotherhood of man" will be realized in fact. Freedom must be realized by every child of God before he can come to the true understanding of his relations to God and man.

It is a well-known fact that only as different parts of the body are used are they strengthened, and if any part is left in idleness it becomes only a question of time when weakness ensues. That which is true of the body is equally true of the mind. Only as every mental faculty is used in a rightful way does that faculty become strengthened and perfected. In the past, women have not used their mental faculties to any marked degree, but have accepted their thoughts and opinions ready-made from the lords of creation. How could woman show forth her innate greatness when debarred from creative thought action? Could any body of men ever become great who lived simply in thoughts and ideas of others? Latent talents and possibilities only disclose themselves when each faculty is used to the extent of its present capacity. The race, without doubt, has been greatly retarded in its development because of the failure to see the necessity for the intellectual development of woman. Let us trace the good which will result from the higher development of woman.

It strengthens the mind to think and reason for oneself, and it brings greater self-reliance and greater independence of thought and action; and these tend also to free the mind from superstitious fears which produce harmful effects to both mind and body. The many and varied positions now filled by women require so much greater activity than has ever been needed in her employment in the past, that the supply of human energy is thereby vastly increased, and strength, not weakness, is the result. We do not as yet see fully how great a factor it will prove in human development, because attention is centered rather on the change and the more external side of the question.

The prophets of evil will find before many years that they have made many miscalculations; that the very things which they prophesied would bring evil to the race have really conferred the greatest benefits; that with the development of the intellectual side of woman, she is better fitted to rear and care for a family; that she is able to impart knowledge to her children which she has gained by her individual efforts and experience. Instead of accepting St. Paul's advice, when he said that if a woman would know anything let her ask her husband, she will be able to speak out of the fulness of her own mental experience, wherein she has thought out as carefully and as logically the many problems of existence as has her brother man.

At the present, men do not lay marked stress upon the power of woman to think and reason, claiming that she is moved solely by her emotions, and jumps to conclusions. But with a greater development of her intellect will come also a far higher respect for her feelings, and a decided gain will come to mankind through the recognition of the fact that it takes both thought and feeling to perfect the life. The truer development of man will come when this so-called womanly quality of feeling has much greater scope in his life than now.

It would be possible to go on indefinitely enumerating the advantages which would flow from a new womanhood wherein quite as much benefit would come to man as to woman. A perfect equality between man and woman should be the watchword of the day, and the one who succeeds in doing anything to further the cause becomes a benefactor to humanity. It is with gladness that the awakened soul should herald the morning of the new day in which is proclaimed for both sexes liberty, equality, and fraternity.