GOD'S GREATEST TRUST
Phillips, Wendell
God's Greatest Trust By WENDELL PHILLIPS SOCIAL SCIENCE affirms that woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. From its twilight in Greece, through the Italian worship of the...
...It has been a weary and thank-less, though successful, struggle...
...the statute books of thirty states have been remodeled, and woman stands today almost face to face with her last claim—the...
...while our common law, as Lord Brougham confessed, was, with relation to women, the opprobrium of the age and Christianity...
...ballot...
...But if there be any refuge from that ghastly curse—the vice of great cities, before which social science stands palsied and dumb—it is in this more equal recognition of woman...
...From its twilight in Greece, through the Italian worship of the virgin, the dreams of chivalry, the justice of the civil law and the equality of French society, we trace her gradual recognition...
...For forty years plain men and women, working noiselessly, have washed away that opprobrium...
...If, in this critical battle for universal suffrage— our fathers' noblest legacy to us, and the greatest trust God leaves in our hands—there will be any weapon which once taken from the armory will make victory certain, it will be, as it has been in art, literature and society, summoning woman into the political arena...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 16
