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 composed a work of outstanding genius. Opportunity and encouragement, two things which are scarcely offered to her now, will be freely given to her then.

In acting, singing, public speaking, lecturing, debating, and elocution she will appear, if so she chooses. She will not be shut out of the pulpit, nor from the professorial chair. The only qualification required will be fitness, and the power to adorn the particular sphere in which she places herself. Not that she will be commanded by the authorities to withdraw from her profession if her abilities are not of the best; but a Socialist audience will want the best singing, the best playing, the best acting, the best public speaking, the best reciting, the best lecturing, and the finest exhortation that can be given, and a second-rate professional may find herself without an audience.

Truly, in the time that is to come it will behove men to be less ignorant lest the advancing host of unconquerable women put them openly to shame.