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THE CONGRESS OF WOMEN.
man’s superiors but his docile servitors. They are the high seats from which his penetrating eye can study limitless spaces; and the foothills are but man’s footstools. Pathless oceans have easily become his entirely convenienthighways. At human option Niagara, earth’s diadem of waterfalls, is transformed into a still more magnificent jewel in the coronet of intellect and its rational utilities. Men and women are rightfully to possess the earth and its fullness of treasures; are to recreate a new earth in which the desert will blossom as the rose. Better still, the swords must be beaten into plowshares and the spears into pruning hooks. But in all intellectual and moral advancement in the consummation of applied higher truths and the more unselfish virtues, woman everywhere must uplift her own standards and illustrate her own best achievements.