Olympia Brown

“ Colby for twenty years and I never heard her make an unkind criticism of a fellow worker. She was wholly unselfish, single minded, without desire for personal
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glory. Woman suffrage never had a more earnest, sincere and devoted advocate. With her it was a vital, fundamental principle for which no labor was too hard, no sacrifice too great. Her courage was sublime. She never waited for money or other assistance when an opportunity offered to advance her cause, but went forward with dauntless faith that in some way the means would be provided. ”

“ In all ages humanity has sought to find outside itself a perfection on which it may lean. With earlier theological interpretations this led to the belittlement of the human. With the new exaltation of the human we have to see to it that we do not get a belittled idea of the Divine, that we do not try to measure the Infinite with our own yard stick. Even with the new joy of working for spiritual development from the standpoint of evolving
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our potential divinity we must find our inspiration not in ourselves but in that Radiant Center which is at the very heart of Being. ”

“ The history of the development of humanity has been the feeling of man towards God. True, it was the divine in him feeling after the Divine in the Universal, as Plotinus said, "The flight of the alone to the Alone." Man has been thought into manifestation. He has been incarnated in a body, but not wholly incarnated, for as the same writer said, "The Soul leaves something of itself above." Here is the secret of the Radiant Center, that it keeps a string, so-tospeak, on all that is manifested out of it.
Science and philosophy, therefore, show us the Radiant Center at the heart of the universe. ”

“ We come from the Infinite and we are on our journey back to it; we have its push behind us to impel us to perform the smallest service with the realization that it is related to the infinite dignity, power and peace of our Source, but the way to understand our nature, our purpose and our destiny is to center our thought on the allinclusive personality of which each created being is a manifestation. ”

“ We are always restless and unsatisfied until we find the Soul of the World and find our own soul in it. It is natural for the soul to aspire; ever to seek to break away from the paralysis of world environment; the limitations of the flesh and the devil of separateness; to unite itself consciously with the Source of its being. As the poet Mathilda Blind has said:
"As compressed within the bounded shell Boundless oceans cease to surge and swell, So haunting echoes of an infinite whole Moan and murmur through man's finite soul." ”

“ Man is, as the Greeks said, "The being with the upturned face." Let us, like the candidate for the Eagle grade in the Mithraic ritual who must be able to soar into the pure ether and gaze unflinchingly at the glory of the sun, invoke that perfection which lies hid in the substance of our imperfect development, and dare to look upon the destiny of humanity.
It is man's destiny so to master the physical forces that sickness and weakness shall be unknown, and Death, no longer an enemy, be the friendly doorkeeper to be summoned at will to let us into the larger life. ”

“ He relates it absolutely to New Thought teaching when he says, "It is by conceiving what might be before one has seen the way to realize it practically that scientists have been buoyed up through the period of experiment." We therefore have good authority in philosophy and in science for venturing to predicate of the Infinite all that our finite minds can possibly conceive of the highest and best, knowing that while it certainly transcends that conception it cannot contradict it. Our highest conception of God is therefore a base from which to measure the finite. ”

“ Such is the conception of unity in which science and philosophy at last find their common meeting ground. To find any point of contact between individual manifestations we must go back to the Center from which all have come. As Bergson says, "the unity lies in the initial impulse behind and not in the direction along which objects are moving." Thinking back as far as our minds can go we come to Unity. We can think back as far as the One Source from which all have come. ”

“ We are no aliens in a strange universe, governed by an outside God. This strengthening vision, this sense of union with Divinity—this is what science will some day tell us is the inner meaning of the redemption of man."
Science has achieved such marvels that humanity fearlessly accepts her most stupendous claim. ”

“ While we must work along all lines until full suffrage is secured for all women, our demand, based on the Constitution, adds dignity to the whole movement, and lays upon men the responsibility of protecting women in their heritage of liberty according to the foundation principles of our Government. ”

“ Wauhkeon, then, the brightest of the gods, — And ruling Spirit of the present time, Stood forth. On him the light of early dawn, The Star of Morning, on his forehead shone. The birds broke forth in sweetest songs as thus He spake:—
"Spirit, by whom all things exist, All homage be to thee forever paid. All other gods, what time their work is done, Shall vanish into naught; but thou shalt still Securely reign o'er all created things. ”

“ Her feeling was well expressed by the pastor of the Pilgrim Band as they departed in the Mayflower: "God hath more truth yet to break out of His word." More truth, more truth, is ever the desire of the earnest soul. ”

“ And white men from beyond the dawn have come And bought our lands and paid for them with blood. Among my people they sowed seeds of woe, And e'en my power to their service yoked. My children hear and heed my voice no more; But as some giant oak, into whose heart Disease has crept, will flourish for a time, Then, one by one, the branches fade and fall, Until a bare and withered trunk it stands For the first storm to fell,—e'en so decay, With slow and certain blight has seized upon The Red Man ”

“ Undoubtedly this very versatility and variety unfitted the Tribune to be an organ of the National-American Association while it made it a most interesting and profitable family paper, in which Woman's Suffrage was commended to many by the very fact that it was made interesting by being associated with other subjects. Mrs. Colby had a good taste for poetry and not the least of the attractions of the Tribune were the charming selections of choice and often rare poems which appeared in every issue. ”

“ This is what the Divine in man himself has to achieve — to become, as Jesus did, the likeness or exact copy of God. Man is not a finished creation. "If he were," said Balzac, "God would cease to exist." He is working on himself, a coworker with God. He has now the vision of his final destiny and he lends himself to the Great Sculptor who sees the likeness in the image and with many a chisel stroke is bringing it out into the form divine.
The Bible says of man, "Thou hast put all
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things under his feet, but we see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus." ”

“ Atomic energy has been computed to amount to 16,381,000 tons in one cubic inch, oscillating billions of times a second. If you hit a man with a stone you may hurt him a little, but if you could let loose upon him the energy of a microscopic atom you would grind him to powder. What is the next finer force after atomic force and radial energy? Surely it must be that of thought which, if we knew how to use it would be more powerful than any so-called physical force however subtle.
All the great scientists of the day agree that, about and through everything, there is the play of Eternal Mind. ”

“ By common law and daily practice women are included in the word "people" in the Articles of Amendment—I, II, IV, and IX — which protect the civil rights of both sexes alike.
Plainly, if women were included in the term "people" as the word occurs six times in the Constitution, inferentially "women" were meant by "people" in the one other occurrence of the word, which is in Article
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I, Section 2: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States." ”

“ O Wakan, where the Western breezes dwell I live and brew the storms which terrify. Dread famine, wars, and pestilence, and fire, My children are. On wings of mighty wind, I traveled to and fro through this broad land Contending for it with thine other gods. I dried the streams and drove away the game. The Indian, forced by want of food, made war Upon his brother brave. ”

“ So that when the states impose upon their own citizens a qualification, that of sex, with which one-half of them cannot comply, it has no reference to the federal elector, who is not bound thereby, nor can his or her right of federal suffrage be defeated by such an artifice. ”

“ A stronger god than I pursues my steps; My children he has bound, and under foot He tramples them and laughs my power to scorn. In place of war and desolation, peace abounds; And when I send my storms to blast, behold, The earth is greener than before. ”

“ The whole argument illustrates the fundamental principles of our democracy These principles applied would make citizenship rather than any incident of sex or color the qualification for the voter, thus giving to every citizen of the United States a birthright of liberty of inestimable value and crowning him with the majesty of an independent freeman. ”

“ He demanded an act of Congress according to the fourth section of Article I and quoted James Madison as saying that "the power to change the regulations made by the states was to protect the people. Should the people at any time be deprived of the right of suffrage in any state for any cause it was deemed proper that it should be remedied by the General Government." ”

“ The student was not restricted as to hours of study, the only limitation being his powers of endurance.
Hence, Clara went from the district school with its very meagre opportunities, her chief attainments being the power to read and wrest the meaning from the printed page, and her knowledge of the Bible acquired in her home, together with the merest rudiments of mathematics, geography and history, into the University. She possessed vigorous health, the habit of work, and an immeasurable zest for knowledge. ”

“ The likeness bore of mingled sun and storm.
This was Wakonda, the "Supreme Unknown,"
The great "Above," the Spirit whom alone
The Western nations worship as the source
Unseen of all existent spirit force. ”

“ Miss Anthony then advocated the Tribune with all her great earnestness, expressing the utmost appreciation of its merits and urging its acceptance. She had done the same in Kansas and other western states, everywhere urging subscriptions with the statement that it was the "organ of the National Association." Thus the Woman's
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Tribune became recognized throughout the West as the organ of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, and to many women the only source of information and sole authority on the subject of Woman's Suffrage. ”

“ Radial energy travels, scientists tell us, 120,000 miles a second and acts with undiminished power, yet this is called a physical force. Surely, here we stand before the secret of Life at the point where Spirit and Matter are demonstrably the same, at the place where the hitherto materialist or
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agnostic accepts the philosophy that Spirit is all there is. ”

“ In Zeus begin we—let no mortal voice Leave Zeus unpraised. Zeus fills the haunts of men, The streets, the marts, Zeus fills the sea, the shore, The harbors; everywhere we live in Zeus, We are His offspring too. ”

“ The case has no bearing on our claim save that it decided for all time that women are citizens and entitled to the "privileges and immunities" of citizenship. The Supreme Court has three times ruled that citizenship and suffrage are inseparable. Before the negro was made a citizen it was ruled that the negro, not being a citizen, could not be a voter. After the Fourteenth Amendment made him a citizen it was ruled in two cases that, being a citizen, he was now a voter. ”

“ To lead him in the hunt, to mingle in His sports, to fight his battles, to protect Him from his foes, and teach him of his gods. But grieve not that thy work is well nigh done. The Red Man needs must perish from these plains Because the march of progress he prevents. The world must prosper, though a people cease. ”

“ She was optimistic in the extreme and her aspirations lifted her into an atmosphere of ideality and exaltation which made her oblivious of the realities of life, and forgetful of the difficulties to be encountered. ”

“ The names and descriptions of the Great Spirit and the Guardian Spirits of Nebraska are taken from the Mythology of the Lakotah Indians, which is closely followed in the statement by their own special Guardian. The part played by the returning goldhunters is included in the story of the goddess who prepared the soil to welcome man. The devastations of war, fire, pestilence, and famine, are portrayed as the writer has lived them in that country, which is now under the sway of "the brighest of the gods."
—Clara Bewick Colby.
The hidden springs of Life from man the Gods conceal ”

“ It is a privilege to offer to you a few words of remembrance of Clara Bewick as a student in the University of Wisconsin. The contrast between college entrance preparation of the present time and the entrance requirements of just fifty years ago is striking. The student who had reached a suitable age, fifteen years or more, applied by personal presentation of himself at the University, selected such studies as he thought profitable, entered classes, and sank or swam as he was able to do. ”

“ Colby, not only during the life of the paper but afterwards in all her work.
Amid all these discouragements and without aid and at a constant financial loss, Mrs. Colby carried on her paper in a manner that was absolutely heroic. Unable to pay for printing she learned to set type, and often was at once editor and compositor, sometimes even running the press. For a time she had her own little outfit in the basement of her house in Washington, where she did everything from writing the editorials to folding and mailing with her own hands. ”