treated as though
inferior, and is not allowed equal rights and privileges. This condition
is due not to nature, but to education. In the Divine Creation there is no
such distinction. Neither sex is superior to the other in the sight of
God. Why then should one sex assert the inferiority of the other,
withholding just rights and privileges as though God had given His
authority for such a course of action? If women received the same
educational advantages as those of men, the result would demonstrate the
equality of capacity of both for scholarship.

In some respects woman is superior to man. She is more tender-hearted,
more receptive, her intuition is more intense.

It is not to be denied that in various directions woman at present is more
backward than man, also that this temporary inferiority is due to the lack
of educational opportunity. In the necessity of life, woman is more
instinct with power than man, for to her he owes his very existence.

If the mother is educated then her children will be well taught. When the
mother is wise, then will the children be led into the path of wisdom. If
the mother be religious she will show her children how they should love
God. If the mother is moral she guides her little ones into the ways of
uprightness.

It is clear therefore that the future generation depends on the mothers of
today. Is not this a vital responsibility for the woman? Does she not
require every possible advantage to equip her for such a task?

Therefore, surely, God is not pleased that so important an instrument as
woman should suffer from want of training in order to attain the
perfections desirable and necessary for her great life's work! Divine
Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected
since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity
before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart.
Human virtues belong equally to all!

Woman must endeavour then to attain greater perfection, to be man's equal
in every respect, to make progress in all in which she has been backward,
so that man will be compelled to acknowledge her equality of capacity and
attainment.

In Europe women have made greater progress than in the East, but there is
still much to be done! When students have arrived at the end of their
school term an examination takes place, and the result thereof determines
the knowledge and capacity of each student. So will it be with