There Was A Time When Patience Ceased

To-day There Is Hardly A Woman Of Intelligence In All America ... Who Is Not Definitely And Actively Concerned In Some Social Interest, Who Does Not Recognize Some Duty Besides Those Incident To Her Own Blood Relationship.

But Reason Has No Power Against Feeling, And Feeling Older Than History Is No Light Matter.

To Attain Happiness In Another World We Need Only To Believe Something, While To Secure It In This World We Must Do Something.

This Is The Woman's Century, The First Chance For The Mother Of The World To Rise To Her Full Place . . . And The World Waits While She Powders Her Nose.

If We Once Admit That Our Life Is Here For The Purpose Of Race-improvement, Then We Question Any Religion Which Does Not Improve The Race, Or The Main Force Of Which Evaporates, As It Were, Directing Our Best Efforts Toward The Sky.... Improvement In The Human Race Is Not Accomplished By Extracting Any Number Of Souls And Placing Them In Heaven, Or Elsewhere. It Must Be Established On Earth, Either Through Achievement In Social Service, Or Through Better Children.