Recognize the fact, the law, that your power, your high commission, is inward, vital, formative and causal.  Bring all questions of choice or duty to this test; will it work at the heart of things, among the realities and forces?  Try your own life by this; remember that mere external is falsehood and death.  The letter killeth.  Give up all that is only of the appearance, or even chiefly so, in conscious delight and motive—­in person, surrounding, pursuit.  Let your self-presentation, your home-making and adorning, your social effort and interest, your occupation and use of talent, all shape and issue for the things that are essentially and integrally good, and that the world needs to have prevail.  Until you can do this, and induce such doing, it is of little use to clamor for mere outward right or to contend that it would be rightly applied.

This whole pamphlet is a magnificent illustration of that stupendous and vital truth that the mission and sphere of woman is in the inward life of man; that she must be the building up and governing power that comes from those better impulses, those inward secrets of the heart and sentiment that govern men to do all that is good and pure and holy and keep them from all that is evil.

Mr. President, the emotions of women govern.  What would be the result of woman suffrage if applied to the large cities of this country is a matter of speculation.  What women have done in times of turbulence and excitement in large cities in the past we know.  Open that terrible page of the French Revolution and the days of terror, when the click of the guillotine and the rush of blood through the streets of Paris demonstrated to what extremities the ferocity of human nature can be driven by political passion.  Who led those blood-thirsty mobs?  Who shrieked loudest in that hurricane of passion?  Woman.  Her picture upon the pages of history to-day is indelible.  In the city of Paris in those ferocious mobs the controlling agency, nay, not agency, but the controlling and principal power, came from those whom God has intended to be the soft and gentle angels of mercy throughout the world.  But I have said more than I intended.  I ask that this pamphlet be printed in my remarks.

The presiding officer.  If there be no objection, the pamphlet will be printed in the record as requested by the Senator from Missouri.  The Chair hears no objection.

The pamphlet is as follows: 

    The law of woman-life.

The external arguments on both sides the modern woman question have been pretty thoroughly presented and well argued.  It seems needless to repeat or recombine them; but in one relation they have scarcely been handled with any direct purpose.  Justice and expediency have been the points insisted on or contested; these have not gone back far enough; they have not touched the central fact, to set it forth in its force and finality.  The fact is original and inherent, behind and at the root of the entire matter, with all its complication and circumstance.  We have to ask a question to which it is the answer, and whose answer is that of the whole doubt and dispute.

    What is the law of woman-life?