“NOW, if the man and the woman exist to multiply and replenish the earth, blessed to that end by the primal benediction in the morning of the world, and if they are to form homes, out of which shall grow houses, tribes, states and nations; and if, in designing them to that end, God made them essentially diverse the one from the other, establishing distinctions so obvious as to be immediately discerned, and so necessary that they have been maintained by many a law, human and divine, who can imagine that their work should be the same? The distinction, the difference, must run through the entire line of their activity. A man must have his share, a woman hers: the woman was not made to do the man’s work, nor the man that of the woman’s. To see this is wisdom: to maintain it inflexibly is security and peace; to ignore it must end in destruction and unhappiness.”
— Rev. Dr. Morgan Dix, 1827-1908, of the Episcopal Diocese of New York (The Women’s Protest; September, 1913)
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