Here and there throughout history occur instances of women who have been received as equals by men, but for the mass of women equality could only be procured by civilization.
Lore of the Woods
By Ruby Archer
(Contemporary. Poet and journalist.)
Go not into the woods for rioting.
But sit thee down alone; lean on a tree,
And read the greatest volume of the world,
Writ in the letters of the leaves and birds.
Mark how the branches draw their fluid life
From the one stem deep nourished in the earth,