Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!! These Three; but the Greatest of These Is Justice A Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music, New York, Feb. 20, 1872

In February 1872 the speaker rose before packed audiences in Boston’s Music Hall and New York’s Academy of Music, proclaiming that freedom, equality and justice are inseparable, with justice the highest ideal. She frames human progress as a tide that has lifted societies from tribal rule to nation‑states, then to a new era where nations blend into races and ultimately into a single world community. With vivid reference to ancient conquerors and modern inventions—steamships, railroads, telegraphs and the printing press—she shows how the tools of intellect have replaced the sword, knitting far‑flung peoples together.

The address argues that true power must flow from the many to the individual, dissolving borders that once defined loyalty. It envisions a future in which citizens of the world share equal authority, guided by a collective moral spirit. Listeners are invited to consider how the ideas of the nineteenth century still echo in today’s debates about global unity and social justice.