PART III.
SUGGESTIVE.
“ The commonwealth is to take necessary measures for the protection of public health, and to secure society against whatever may he a public nuisance or a public peril.” — Mtjlfobd : The Nation, p. 286.
I have intimated, that the exactions of distorted views of life, the consequent disarrangement of economic adjustments, and woman’s own mistaken ambitions, have inflicted upon her a position in industrial toil foreign to the true intent of her being. In brief, she must now labor for bread in the same field with men, and, so doing, falls short of, is outside, her true and highest possibilities and privileges. What, then, are these ? and how may the designed condition, n*
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