the
different
phases of
it.I
should not
be just to
a vivid
phase if
Ifailed to
speak of
Mrs.Julia
Ward Howe
and the
impulse of
reform
which she
personified.I
did not
sympathize
with this
then so
much as I
do now,but
I could
appreciate
it on the
intellectual
side.Once,many
years
later,I
heard
Mrs.Howe
speak in
public,and
it seemed
to me that
she made
one of the
best
speeches I
had ever
heard.It
gave me
for the
first time
a notion
of what
women
might do
in that
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