essential for the health and continued development of the human race. In
the Woman's Labour Movement of our day, which has essentially taken its
rise among women of the more cultured and wealthy classes, and which
consists mainly in a demand to have the doors leading to professional,
political, and highly skilled labour thrown open to them, the ultimate end
can only be attained at the cost of more or less intense, immediate,
personal suffering and renunciation, though eventually, if brought to a
satisfactory conclusion, it will undoubtedly tend to the material and
physical well-being of woman herself, as well as to that of her male
companions and descendants.

The coming half-century will be a time of peculiar strain, as mankind seeks
rapidly to adjust moral ideals and social relationships and the general
ordering of life to the new and continually unfolding material conditions.
If these two great movements of our age, having this as their object, can
be brought into close harmony and co-operation, the readjustment will be
the sooner and more painlessly accomplished; but, for the moment, the two
movements alike in their origin and alike in many of their methods of
procedure, remain distinct.

It is this fact, the consciousness on the part of the women taking their
share in the Woman's Movement of our age, that their efforts are not, and
cannot be, of immediate advantage to themselves, but that they almost of
necessity and immediately lead to loss and renunciation, which gives to
this movement its very peculiar tone; setting it apart from the large mass
of economic movements, placing it rather in a line with those vast
religious developments which at the interval of ages have swept across
humanity, irresistibly modifying and reorganising it.

It is the perception of this fact, that, not for herself, nor even for