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side issues vast political and social troubles. I have 

 no more doubt that free thought will win in the long 

 run than I have that I sit here writing to you, or that 

 this free thought will organize itself into a coherent 

 system, embracing human life and the world as one 

 harmonious whole. But this organization will be the 

 work of generations of men, and those who further 

 it most will be those who teach men to rest in no lie, 

 and to rest in no verbal delusions. 



Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the 

 consequences. No good is ever done in this world 

 by hesitation. 



The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up 

 for all its folly and injustice by being damnably 

 sentimental. 



Without seeing any reason to believe that women 

 are, on the average, so strong physically, intellec- 

 tually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to 

 the fact that many women are much better endowed 

 in all these respects than many men, and I am at a 

 loss to understand on what grounds of justice or 

 public policy a career which is open to the weakest 

 and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly 

 closed to women of vigour and capacity. 



We have heard a great deal lately about the 

 physical disabilities of women. Some of these 



