. Review of reviews and world's work . eatsof learning, jealously monopolized by the men who,after dooming their sisters to ignorance, refuse themcivic justice and human rights because they sufferfrom the consequences of their exclusion. As a con-sequence, while everywhere in society man suffers,woman suffers still more, and his sufferings are not tobe compared to hers. Woman is trained either to be ahouse^^ife or a courtesan. She is excluded from citi-zenship, deprived of education, and defrauded of the 160 THE REKIEIV OF REyiElVS, wages of her labor, and in too many cases bidden tomake up th
. Review of reviews and world's work . eatsof learning, jealously monopolized by the men who,after dooming their sisters to ignorance, refuse themcivic justice and human rights because they sufferfrom the consequences of their exclusion. As a con-sequence, while everywhere in society man suffers,woman suffers still more, and his sufferings are not tobe compared to hers. Woman is trained either to be ahouse^^ife or a courtesan. She is excluded from citi-zenship, deprived of education, and defrauded of the 160 THE REKIEIV OF REyiElVS, wages of her labor, and in too many cases bidden tomake up the deficiency by the sale of her the iron enters into the soul of some women,and they become rebels. Sometimes, if they areChristians like Mrs. Butler, they are rebels for theLords sake. Sometimes if, like Louise Michel, theyhave been alienated from the Church, they are rebelsfor the sake of their sex, In rebellion alone, ex-claims Louise, woman is at ease, trampling uponboth prejudice and sufferings. All intelligent women. LOUISE MICHEL IN MILITARY UNIFORM, 1870-1. will sooner or later rise in rebellion. This, no doubt,is overstrained and exaggerated. Except one or twolike Louise Michel—to whom the smell of powder isas sweet incense, and to whom there is no music likethe thunder of artillery and the bursting of shells-women are profoundly ill at ease in revolutions. Buta woman who does not realize the injustice of the de-nial of justice and equal rights to her sex in Churchand in State is becoming the exception rather thanthe rule, and this change will work itself out in aIjrofound social, moral and economic revolution be-fore long. And the slower comfortable women arein appreciating the wrongs of their sex, the moreLouise Michel will be driven mad by the contempla-tion of the hopeless sum of human misery that is in- volved in the radical injustice in which the subjec-tion of woman is based. II. THE COMMUNE. When Louise Michel was crossing the Thol forestwhen qui
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