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dren, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven." Sub- 

 mission of will, loving trust, confiding faith these 

 belong to the child: how strange they appear to the 

 executing, commanding, reasoning man ! Are they so 

 strange to the woman? We all know the answer. 

 Woman is nearer to the point of departure of that de- 

 velopment which outlives time and peoples heaven ; and 

 if man would find it, he must retrace his steps, regain 

 something he lost in youth, and join to the powers and 

 energies of his character the submission, love and faith 

 which the new birth alone can give. 



Thus the summing up of the metaphysical qualities of 

 woman would be thus expressed : In the emotional 

 world, man's superior ; in the moral world, his equal ; 

 in the laboring world, his inferior. 



There are, however, vast differences in women in re- 

 spect to the number of masculine traits they may have 

 assumed before being determined into their own special 

 development. Woman also, under the influence of ne- 

 cessity, in later years of life, may add more or less to 

 those qualities in her which are fully developed in the 

 man. 



The relation of these facts to the principles stated as 

 the two opposing laws of development is, it appears to 

 me, to be explained thus : First, that woman's most in- 

 herent peculiarities are not the result of the external 

 circumstances with which she has been placed in con- 

 tact, as the conflict theory would indicate. Such circum- 

 stances are said to be her involuntary subserviency to 

 the physically more powerful man, and the effect of a 

 compulsory mode of life in preventing her from attain- 

 ing a position of equality in the activities of the world. 

 Second, that they are the result of the different distri- 



