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in her person and property; and no one has done 

 so much to inspire and lead this advance as Susan 

 B. Anthony; and yet she was, until within a quar- 

 ter of a century, the butt of general ridicule. 



Eve walked in advance of Adam in the path 

 which led to moral consciousness: to manhood and 

 womanhood. This is clearly implied in the mosaic 

 story of Eve, and was verified in his usual happy 

 and convincing way by the late Henry Drummond. 

 She rose above his moral plane and led him in the 

 ascent. She was the first to eat of the tree of ethi- 

 cal knowledge. She was the first to become discon- 

 tent with a homeless life under the trees of Paradise, 

 and to ask for permanent and secure shelter for 

 herself and her little ones. Her absorbing passion 

 was child-love, a fierce and jealous affection, which 

 is no longer, in the highest civilizations, necessary 

 for the protection of children, and which has con- 

 sequently become softened and modified. She 

 could not be content with carrying the youngest 

 out of danger to the tops of the trees; she must 

 protect her whole brood. Hence the stone-barri- 

 caded cave, at once a fortress and a home, the 

 hearth-fire, the family, and the most elevating and 

 refining influence that ever fell upon men — mother 

 love. 



It has frequently been said by ecclesiasticians 

 that women have nothing to complain of against the 

 church; that they owe all the emancipation they 

 now enjoy to Christianity. That is true, if by 



