CHAPTER III
THE WOMAN SOCIALIST OF TO–DAY
Socialism is not yet an established fact. It is coming; nothing can prevent that, It is the next inevitable step in ordered progress. But women must not wait for its coming; nor must they consecrate their time and talents entirely to firing the imaginations and touching the hearts of men with pity for their own condition whilst women live in bonds. The raising of women to the present position of men would be a revolution as great in its character and as important in its consequences as the destruction of the present social and industrial system and the establishment upon its ruins of the new social order. Let Socialist women remember this fact; and let them give their lives to raising their sisters, no matter what their position in society, so that men and women, equally armed, may fight side by side for that economic liberty denied to so many.
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