Is the Amazonian spirit dead in the earth?
Not so! It is alive, and clothing itself with will, power and persistence.
Already it is grasping the rein, and the mettled steed stands impatient to feel the rider's impulse in the saddle.

The cycle of woman's degradation and humiliation is completed.

A new era in the world's social history has dawned for her, and the mountain-tops are golden with the coming day." Irene listened with delight and even enthusiasm to these sentiments, uttered with ardor and eloquence.
"It is not woman's fault, taking her in the aggregate, that she is so weak in body and mind, and such a passive slave to man's will," continued Mrs.Talbot.

"In the retrocession of races toward barbarism mere muscle, in which alone man is superior to woman, prevailed.

Physical strength set itself up as master.