the species, in the order of human
development, for woman to assert her rights, and to demand the
recognition of the feminine element in all the vital interests of
life.

To battle against a palpable fact in philosophy and the
accumulated facts in achievement that can be seen on all sides in
woman's work for the last forty years, from slavery to equality,
is as vain as to fight against the law of gravitation. We shall
as surely reach the goal we purposed when we started, as that the
rich prairies of Nebraska will ere long feed and educate millions
of brave men and women, gathered from every nation on the globe.
Every consideration for the improvement of your home life, for
the morality of your towns and cities, for the elevation of your
schools and colleges, and the loftiest motives of patriotism
should move you, men of Nebraska, to vote for this amendment.
Galton in his great work on Heredity says:

We are in crying want of a greater fund of ability in all
stations of life, for neither the classes of statesmen,
philosophers, artisans nor laborers, are up to the modern
complexity of their several professions. An extended
civilization like ours comprises more interests than the
ordinary statesmen or philosophers of our race are capable
of dealing with, and it exacts more intelligent work than
our ordinary artisans and laborers, are capable of
performing. Our race is overweighted, and appears likely to
be dragged into degeneracy by demands that exceed its
powers. If its average ability were raised a grade or two, a
new class of statesmen would conduct our complex affairs at
home and abroad, as easily as our best business men now do
their own private trades and professions. The needs of
centralization, communication, and culture, call for more
brains and mental stamina, than the average of our race
possesses.

Does it need a prophet to tell us where to begin this work? Does
not the physical and intellectual condition of the women of a
nation decide the capacity and power of its men? If we would give
our sons the help and inspiration of woman's thought and interest
in the complex questions of our present civilization, we must
first give her the powe