“The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?”
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The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
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The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position.
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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
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There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.
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