—Walt Whitman (“Children of Adam”). 4.—“_A sweeter purpose, purer rapture, taste_;” “A wife is no longer the husband’s property; and, according to modern ideas, marriage is, or should be, a contract on the footing of perfect equality between the sexes. The history of human marriage is the history of a relation in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passions, the prejudices, and the selfish interests of men.”—Edward Westermarck (Concluding words of “The History of Human Marriage”). 7.—“_The only rivalry_ ...” “When woman finds her proper place in legislation, it will be found ultimately that it will be not as man’s rival, but his helpmate.”—Mabel Collins (“On Woman’s Relation to the State”). 8.—“_How for their lineage fair still larger fate to find_.” “Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, had the idea of making public principle and utility predominate over private interests and affections; and on that idea he ordained that children were not to be the property of their parents, but of the State, which was to direct their education, and determine their modes of life. A better idea with the legislators of the future—_the number of whom will be equal with that of all wholesomely-developed men and women upon the earth_—will be to take fullest advantage of all natural instincts. The parents, their hearts ever yearning with love for their offspring, and the community, careful of its individual members, co-operating in placing the children under all good influences towards that development, which, being the best for their individual lives, will also coincide with what is best for the general welfare. For this end, the experience of the past, and the higher wisdom of their own times, will far better qualify them to judge of fitting means and methods than we can now either surmise or suggest.”—David Maxwell (“Stepping-stones to Socialism,” p. 15). LX. 1.—“_Their task ineffable yields wondrous gain_.” “... I rest not from my great task; To open the eternal worlds! To open the immortal eyes Of man inwards; into the worlds of thought: into eternity Ever expanding the human imagination.” —William Blake (“Jerusalem”). 2.—“_Their energies celestial force attain_.”