Those who look upon woman’s status by the dim light of the common law, which unfolded itself under the feudal and military institutions that establish right upon physical power, cannot find any analogy in the status of the woman citizen of this country, where the broad sunshine of our Constitution has enfranchised all.
She critiques the outdated view of women's status under common law, advocating for the rights granted by the Constitution.
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Every thinking person knows that no such persons or principles are in authority now, and that they have not been these many years.
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.
Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?
Production lies at the basis of all progress.