Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-20
Woman Is Always the Winner in
Worlds Great Game Of Thought
She Has Better Estimate of
Worth of Things Than Her
Stronger Brother.

that large number of finished citizens
on every hand To her it is marvellous
that progress is possible Vt all consid-
ering the few who labor to give it free
play. Progress despises a rut.
Did you ever note the large number of
men whose life is nothing but a rut?
Did you ever the vast number of
men within the immediate scope of your
view whose expression of L is denoted
by a seemingly automatic butine that
might be utterly devoid of thought? I
have watched men from year to year
whose only participation in hurnan
progress was an invariable repetition of
doing the few simple things necessary
in order to permit them to eat, sleep
and smoke!
Did you ever notice that the man
who never does more than this Is the
one who tries to set the pace of
progress? Those men who do little or
no thinking are the ones who remove
their pipes long enough to say that
this or that shall not be done. While l
am a believer in democratic principles,
l regret to admit that IL we waited for
the majority's assent there would be no
progress at all. Progress never receives
the help of the majority, and does not
depend upon it. The majority has i'm
peded woman's progress by its mere
bulk. Woman has progressed, never
Ftheless, because she is a thinker, and
bulk, while it may be an obstacle, can
not retard the sway n preeminence
of thought.
A man said to me that he wanted his
wife to know something, but he did
not want her to know too much. i
did not ask him that IL he meant by
too much" as much as he knew,
though / felt sure hat hat was what
he did mean as / also felt sure that
she knew much more than he. He was
one Of those men who say they are too
busy to read, which is an inadvertent
admission of refined ignorance. His
wife knew he was ignorant, and no.
body knew better than she how impos-
sible it was to get a thought into that
infiexib1e callousness that at one time
might have beer designated by the
term gray natter She told me that
his very intellectual nihility was an in
%spiration to her to learn more, to COM
p~ensate for his helplessness,
Yet this was the very kind of man
whose head was ready to nod yes
whenever anything was said or done to
prevent woman from enjoying political
or social Individuality. You will please
be careful to note that 1 do not say
equality" Equality does not admit of
progress. We see by the light of the
sun, but some of the rays get here
first. Woman has been denied a great
deal of political and social individu-
ality, but this has given her time to
use what the laws of man could not
check. She has been thinking while
she has not been able to act, and IL
constant use produces skill, she ought
to be proficient in this respect. 1 be-
lieve she can see much better than her
learned brother.
Men slay one another in warfare to
enforce the thoughts of other men and
to enrich other men, Just because they
have not learned how to think. A few
men who think can move myriads who
have no thoughts of their own But
woman, who has been forced to use her
mind, n knows, Is not. subject to the
schemes and ideas of those who use
what little they know TO exploit their
fellow men.
In the game of thought she always
wins, if by victory We mean the ac-
complishment Of ones aim. Nor Is it
handling the v~erities in any loose man
ner to say that on the average, by
reputation and from obtainable stats
tics, she has had the noblest of aims
amidst the conflicting and predatory
efforts of her stronger brother.