This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIX WOMAN AT NEW IIAHMONY "Woman: May the experiment being tried in New Harmony of the same intellectual cultivation of the sexes, prove that woman's capabilities are equal to those of men."--Toast responded to at tht Semi-Centennial celebration at Marietta, Ohio, July 4, 1826. The last century was a great iconoclast. Errors overthrown, fallacies exploded, superstitions vanquished, and broken idols lie strewn along its pathway. In its humanity the century shamed its predecessors. There was no social condition which it did not ameliorate and no social class which it did not lift and better. The nineteenth century did more for womankind than for any other social group. To woman it threw wide open the doors of its schools and universities. For her it wrote welcome above the threshold of every vocation for which she has shown herself to be adapted and in which she has made herself proficient. It broke down the idolatry by which men had perpetuated the errors of the Common Law and relieved woman of its cruelties by legislative enactment. It protected her from the drunkenness and brutality of unworthy husbands and bestowed upon her every right, save that of suffrage, formerly enjoyed by the sterner sex alone. The twentieth century found woman a legal slave and sent her into the twentieth century man's legal as well as his social equal. Much of the battle for equal rights of women centered around the demand for equal political rights. The group of agitators in the forefront of the woman-suffrage movement attacked every abuse and every injustice from which their sisterhood suffered. Public sentiment yielded to every demand save the one for which they labored most zealously, but bequeathed its solution to posterity. In the history of woman suffrage published by t...