To keep up the fight against man as the chief hindrance to the realization of her aspiration is merely to perpetuate in the intellectual world that instinct of the female animal to be ever on guard against the male, save in those periods when she is in pursuit of him! But complicating her problem is not the only injury she does her cause by this ignoring or belittling of woman's part in civilization.

She strips herself of suggestion and inspiration--a loss that cannot be reckoned.

The past is a wise teacher.

There is none that can stir the heart more deeply or give to human affairs such dignity and significance.

The meaning of woman's natural business in the world--the part it has played in civilizing humanity--in forcing good morals and good manners, in giving a reason and so a desire for peaceful arts and industries, the place it has had in persuading men and women that only self-restraint, courage, good cheer, and reverence produce the highest types of manhood and womanhood,--this is written on every page of history.
Women need the ennobling influence of the past.