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280 DR. BLUETHE — But "in itself."

TWO VOICES — What in itself?

DR. BLUETHE — I mean the movement, no, the thought, I was going to say — well, what did I want?

THREE VOICES — You wanted something in itself.

DR. BLUETHE — Ah, yes, in itself. I was going to say, namely, that "the aspiring minds of the German adopted population" could inaugurate "the most profound and systematic opposition" to the principles of the movement. Re

AGNES KOEHLER — The aspiring minds? Aspiring to what? To get an "office?" And these "aspiring minds," to whom profound thinking as well as principles are a horror, are to inaugurate a profound opposition to the principles? Hitherto only men of thought and principle have fought on our side of the movement; they have helped to start it. I remind you, among other things, of a pamphlet, from the pen of the late Karl Heinzen, whose early death we lament, printed as early as 1849 in New York: "Concerning the Rights and Position of Women." In this work you will find the woman question treated comprehensively and in connection with the entire evolution and revolution of society, so that the author can justly exclaim at the end: "Women must enter the ranks of the revolution, for the object is the revolution of humanity."

DR. BLUETHE — This work is beneath all