Published in 1881 | 114 pages | PDF reader required
INTRODUCTION
With feelings of profound gratitude for the indications in all directions of advanced thought on the most radical issues of the day, I launch this little waif upon the sea of literature, only asking a fair and candid consideration at the shrine of public criticism.
These poems were written during an eventful epoch of the world's history, and were penned amid the cares of domestic life, as well as the more onerous duties of a work devoted to Spiritual advancement and the cause of Woman.
I claim that the positive source of the ideas herein contained, lie in the Spiritual realm, and point with prophetic finger, to coming events.
The title I have chosen embodies the principles of the era upon whose threshold we are now standing, whose tidal wave will not recede until the daughters of the people have taken their place in the order of Nature's truest and noblest conception, viz: a completed humanity, with both hemispheres of the race moulded to a perfect adjustment, and in harmony with the spirit of the universe.
To my sister woman everywhere, I dedicate this, my first venture, hoping that a responsive chord will be touched that may awaken them to a realisation of their own inherent power, and a true appreciation of the great responsibility invested in them, as well as a knowledge of the fact that the age is waiting for their intelligent coöperation in all that pertains to a higher and purer civilisation.
To my brother man I appeal, through the pathos of this little book, and ask him to look well to the causes that have driven woman from the seclusion of his proffered protection, to plead her own cause before the bar of a common humanity.
And to all, friend and foe alike, I now submit this volume, with heart-felt sympathy and truth.
THE AUTHOR.
