ABSTRACT
Self-expression has been forced upon woman. There came the revolt of the American Colonies, setting up the theory that all men are born free and equal. Closely following was the French Revolution invading the civilized world with strange and alarming notions concerning liberty, equality, and human brotherhood. The feminist belief that woman of herself has risen from the mire of intellectual sloth to the fresh, clean air of free thought and action is as foolish as to maintain that the Russian serfs could have freed themselves without the aid of Russia’s industrial revolution. Nevertheless, women would have been even more inferior than some students of biology and psychology have judged them had they not aroused themselves from their age-long lethargy. Woman needs only the opportunity of education and an enlarged social environment to achieve as man has achieved.
