ABSTRACT
It is at all times interesting to trace the early growth of an idea which after the lapse of a generation has been accepted as a national problem; and the early workers In the cause of women's suffrage have a special claim to be remembered by the readers of this Review. The growth of public opinion on this subject had been eo silent and unobserved that when Mr. Mill offered to present a petition for female suffrage, he only stipulated that a hundred women should sign it, yet in the space of two or three weeks fifteen hundred signatures were easily obtained. How bad this opinion grown is our present question? Whose writings or speeches had kept the flame alive? There had been a few eloquent books and review articles on the subject, hot some more active agency had certainly been at work, and one of these earnest friends of public freedom was Acme Knight, the talented and philanthropic member of the Society of Friends.
