But the new religion, that of unlimited spiritual freedom— whose dawn is now visible, whose banner bears the sacred inscription, Equality, Liberty, Fraternity, —will also find a befitting secular mode of expression. It will bring in its train corresponding institutions and social forms. It will assume the outward form of a republic such as the world has never yet seen. “A republic without helots;” without poor; without classes; without hereditary hewers of wood and drawers of water; without slaves, whether chattel or wages slaves. “For if I treat all men as divine, how can there be for me such a thing as a slave?” A society, such indeed as the world has never yet seen, —not only of free men, but of free women; a society of equally holy, equally blessed gods. [Helen Macfarlane, ‘Signs of the Times, Red Stockings versus Lawn-Sleeves’, Friend of the People, December 21 and 26, 1850]