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sucking the butts of billiard cues all night, call female 

 society insipid. Poetry is uninspiring to a jockey; beauty 

 has no charms for a blind man; music does not please a 

 poor beast who does not know one tune from another; but 

 as a pure epicure is hardly tired of water, sauces, and 

 brown bread and butter, I protest I can sit for a whole 

 evening talking with a well regulated kindly woman about 

 her girl Fanny, or her boy Frank, and like the evening's 

 entertainment. One of the great benefits derived by man 

 from a woman's society, is that he is bound to be respectful 

 to her. The habit is of great good to your moral men, 

 depend upon it. Our education makes us the most 

 eminently selfish men in the world. " 



u No community has ever exhibited the refinements 

 of civilization and social order, where women were held 

 in contempt and their rights not properly respected and 

 reserved. Degrade woman and you degrade man more. 

 She is the fluid of the thermometer of society, placed 

 there by the hand of the great Creator. Man may injure 

 the instrument, but can neither destroy or provide a 

 substitute for the mercury. Her rights are as sacred as 

 those of the male sex. Her mental powers are underrated 

 by those only who have either not seen, or were so blinded 

 by prejudice, that they would not see their development. 

 Educate girls as boys, put women in the business arena 

 designed for men,- and they will acquit themselves far 

 better than boys and men would, if they were placed in 

 the departments designed for females. As a species, the 

 perception of woman, especially in cases of emergency, is 

 more acute than that of the male species; unquestionably 

 so designed by an all-wise Creator, for the preservation 

 and perpetuity of our race. Her patience and fortitude, 

 her integrity and constancy, her piety and devotion, are 

 naturally stronger than in the other sex. If she was first 

 in transgression, she was first in the breach. Her seed has 



