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Show w oman and HappmM BY JEAN FINOT. Editor of the Fronch "Roviow of Ro-views. Ro-views. ' ' AX uuusunl activity is felt throughout humanity in our present age. Wliilo science aud human courage rush us towards heaven, sociologists and thinkers aro busy arranging aud improving conditions hero below. Through their incessant discoveries human brains teach us to understand tin-suspected tin-suspected mysteries, philosophers are seeking the solution of the most troublesome problems, psychology psych-ology tackles tho most obscure and hidden corners of our I bought, whilo friends of humanity are endeavoring en-deavoring lo banish from our planet plan-et war that is us old us tlio existence exist-ence of organisms on earth Wo are trying to force fortune to smile on everybody n-nd to liberate lib-erate ourselves irom the cruelties of fate, old age, misery and ppver-lv. ppver-lv. Wan -ivanta to make real lor himself that which the gods would never have wanted uor dared do. We want to see bnrniony and nap-Tiincss nap-Tiincss everywhere on earth, hi very Wly happy through -vbotj;- " ll Ibis is nothing but Utopian" Uto-pian" theories,'' err the sceptics. "The time is drawing close, rc- ply tho ontbusiaats. But no matter mat-ter who is right wo must admit that the effort is supremely beautiful, beau-tiful, even if it may cud in a disillusion. dis-illusion. Man is particularly beautiful beau-tiful wbou his aim is high and his will and encrgv strong. Ivery pj ogress is duo oul.y to dissatisfa-'-t.'im w.itk existing coiid'Jioua. We do not, howovcr, demand nearly onougli from life, the possibilities pos-sibilities of which surpass even our most daring dreams. And if it often appears to turn a deaf ear to our appeals, it is becauso we do not know how tp make our appeals ap-peals propcrh. Wb very often ask for things that arc utterly impossible, or which can not be realized until we do our own part. Thus we have proclaimed man, while we havo forgotten woman. I)efyiuc: the laws of equilibrium, wo have wan led to make ouc-half of humanity rise vury high whilo leaving the other half very low. Slavery was possible because masters and slaves lived in different differ-ent stations, but womau is our inseparable in-separable nud inevitable companion. compan-ion. The flight of man has thus boon arrested by the remaining: behind of woman.' Whilo ho rushed to- j wards paradise, his sius in tho shape of sufferings aud iuiquity imposed upon woman hold him back and arc still holding him back on earth. Do not doubt oveu for a moment, mo-ment, that it is fully within our own power to do array with tho troubles aud worries that assail us. We all love life and tremble before death. We allow onrselven to be dominated and tyranuizod bv apprehensions of the end and really only enjoy half our exist-once. exist-once. Mappiuc?s defends only on ourselves. our-selves. Tho rnakincr of it is iu our own hands. Our will contains " unlimited treasures of happiness, but, we havo all transferred tho center of grnviiy of our happiuess without oursolveB and wo draw out happiness from things that are not within our power. Wc havo thus transformed ourselves from masters mas-ters to slaves of destiny. Wo never havo strength ouongh to struggle against our fate aud iustead of joininc bauds like brethren breth-ren wo have nevy ceased to drench the earth with the blood, of fratricidal frat-ricidal wars, fince prejudice, based on immaterial physical difference, and phvpiolosical ndvantacs. hare helped "to split up humanity, as it men were no more than herds of cattle. Superior and inferior races, vclloiv, black aud white men devour de-vour each other nud fight the earth were not great aud rich enough to cmtble thorn all to exist like gods. Rut the most inconceivable of all this: Tn this ascension lo wariU "renter frccilora, equalitv and bapnine.ts. man ns appeared lo force, until those verv last vpars, his constnut companion, to whom he owes his lifo antl the bettor part of his 'solf."' and without whom paradise would be worse titan iuferno to him. V |