Thus far woman has struggled through life with bandaged eyes, accepting the dogma of her weakness and inability to take care of he...rself not only physically but intellectually. She has held out a trembling hand and received gratefully the proffered aid. She has foregone her right to study, to know the laws and purposes of government to which she is subject. But there is now awakened in her a consciousness that she is defrauded of her legitimate Rights and that she never can fulfill her mission until she is placed in that position to which she feels herself called by the divinity within. Hitherto she has surrendered her person and her individuality to man, but she can no longer do this and not feel that she is outraging her nature and her God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscriptio...n may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »