THE REVOLUTIOSfAEY M0VEME:NT AMOXG WOMEIST. 161 



ON THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AMONG 

 WOMEN. 



BY JOHN" W. HOYT, A. M., M. D., LL. D., PRESIDENT OF THE 

 ACADEMY. 



I. 



The work of civilization is the work of individualization. The 

 problem of the ages in the interest of mankind is the problem of 

 the soul at work in its own consciousness. Man's service to man 

 in attempt to harmonize universal need is not greater, nor is it 

 other than this — the attempt of the individual to find himself his 

 proper place. The accomplishment of this by the hA' is that which 

 makes any advancement possible, and it is the accomplishment of 

 it by all that must- liierge the mission in the fulfilment of civiliza- 

 tion. 



But the unit man is able to open the eyes of his fellow men to 

 this greatening of power and privilege only as he is able to help 

 them to alike experience of it. Soon it is found that thought- 

 level and class-level coincide — that one cannot at once get beyond 

 the charter or the decree, and that progress is chronicled by caste 

 and special end. 



This parcelling out the rights of the individual has had the effect 

 to make advances slow and partial; for in the same breath that 

 makes the declaration, '' thus far will we come!" there is heard the 

 limitation, "we and no others!" 



There are two thonghts that run along so parallel to any retro- 

 spect made of the progress of the race that they seem a part of all 

 other thought upon this subject. They are distinctly these: that 

 whatever has been gained has been wrung from those withholding 

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