Suppose, by unlawful methods, one could succeed in dragging a reform a little prematurely from the womb of time, did not one endanger the child's health?
Of what value was woman's influence on public affairs going to be, if she was to boast that she had won the right to exercise it by unscrupulousness and brutality?
They were to be found at every corner: the reformers who could not reform themselves.

The believers in universal brotherhood who hated half the people.

The denouncers of tyranny demanding lamp-posts for their opponents.

The bloodthirsty preachers of peace.

The moralists who had persuaded themselves that every wrong was justified provided one were fighting for the right.