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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 36, 5 September 1891, Page 336

The Women of the Future.—l have wandered over our world as much as most people, hunted, shot, and roughed it in various corners of the earth and our empire as well as most men. I never found myself less tired than my men companions, less able to face hardships, dangers and fatigue. Yet lam not less a woman, a wife and a mother, the instructor of my children, the sharer and companion of their sports, duties, and lives. Let women enjoy this world. That they may be fitted to shine and succeed in it, they must be given equal education and opportunities with the other sex in all things. Therefore to so fit them, we must upbting them, and the fittest for each line of life will adopt it by a process of natural selection. It is not fair to set women to work, hitherto arrogated by men, totally unprepared, for if we do they will fail, and then the baser sort of man will cry, “ We told you so, women are men’s inferiors. See how they have failed." Let us train women to do all that men do, naturally and simplt giving them a fair field and no favour. Once this system is adopted—as adopted it will be in time—it will be seen what a mistake we have made in the past, and how much greater and nobler mankind will be when, free and equal the sexes share all alike, leaving nature to take care of itself.—Lady Florence Dixie.