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Excerpt from A Vital Question: What Is to Be Done?
Such is the motive of the story. But even more impor tant than this special motive is the general theory of the equality of women, the development of which makes the real greatness of the book. Such an ideal of womanhood is offered as can scarcely he found anywhere else in literature. Even those who, possibly misunderstanding what Tchernui shevsky really proposes, think his ideas in respect to free dom of divorce unsound and immoral, cannot fail to recog nize the magnificence of the prospect which he opens before the softer sex in Viera Pavlovna's Fourth Vision. It ought to be read and taken to heart by every woman in the world. It lies with the women themselves to determine their treatment by men, and the terrible social state from which new so many unfortunate creatures, both married and single, are suffering, might be cured as malaria is cured by the wind of the sea, if this theory were only brought into prac tice A Vital Question should especially be grateful to the women of this land, which is popularly supposed to be the land of freedom.
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