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prisons; when the most wronged, ill-treated, and enslaved 

 women are driven into the most hideous of all evils and curses 

 into prostitution and its avenging plagues how little is 

 thought, or said, or done, to remedy these evils. 



In the forty thousand churches and chapels how little is 

 done! In a thousand journals and periodicals how little! By 

 hundreds of religious and philanthropic societies how little! 

 In almost omnipotent Parliament how least of all ! Least there, 

 because it is there that the will of the nation is not formed, but 

 only finally recorded. The will must be elsewhere formed. 

 Parliament does not originate. It is not the brain of the 

 nation neither Lords nor Commons can claim that. The 

 thinkers and teachers of the nation are not, to any great extent, 

 in either House, nor in high office anywhere. The work must 

 be done in the minds and hearts of the people, and when it is 

 done, Parliament will do what they require. We must go 

 to the sources of power. They lie with the people, but not in 

 mere numerical majorities. In a good cause "one may chase 

 a thousand, and two put ten thousand to fligUt." Moral power 

 is stronger than any majority. Right will overcome wrong - 

 good will prevail over evil, whatever may be at any moment 

 the opposing numbers. 



And in respect to the functions of Government, and 

 the right of the wise and good of any community to enforce 

 order and equity, there is the same right that exists in the 

 human body, where a few ounces of brains control a hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds of bones, muscles, and viscera. Will 

 must govern the force of mind; happy if wisdom guides the 

 will. 



And all government, that of the good as well as that of the 

 bad, is an absolute despotism. There is and can be no other. 

 If it is merely a majority, wise or foolish, compelling the sub- 

 mission of a minority, it is none the less an absolute despotism. 

 Force governs with police, military, courts of law, prisons, the 



