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more; moreover, she holds every one strictly accountable for 
every portion of nervous energy which he or she may squan- 
der, therefore, it behooves us to build our causeway with ex- 
ceeding care, otherwise we will leave a chasm which will en- 
gulph posterity. 
The baneful effects resulting from female suffrage will not 
be seen to-morrow, or next week, or week after next, or next 
month, or next year, or a hundred years hence, perhaps. It is 
not a question of our day and generation; it is a matter of in- 
volving posterity. The simple right to vote carries with it no 
immediate danger, the danger comes afterward; probably 
many years after the establishment of female suffrage, when 
woman, owing to her increased degeneration, gives free rein 
to her atavistic tendencies, and hurries ever backward to- 
ward the savage state of her barbarian ancestors. I see, in 
the establishment of equal rights, the first step toward that 
abyss of immoral horrors so repugnant to our cultivated ethical 
tastes—the matriarchate. Sunk as low as this, civilized man 
will sink still lower—to the communal Kachims of the Aleutian 
Islanders. 
EDITOR'S TABLE, 
— For reasons not fully set forth, a considerable number of persons at 
one time adopted the opinion that the coéducation of the sexes possesses 
advantages over their separate education, and accordingly that system 
has been introduced into numerous schools of various grades. Consid- 
eration of certain facts of nature would, it might be supposed, have 
suggested that there might be some objections, but it is not the habit of 
a large class of persons to consider natural facts in the matter of sex. 
Now that the system has been in operation for many years, it is possi- 
ble to see more clearly than before, whether the suspicions of the 
opponents of the system were well-founded or not. We make no 
account of the opposition of persons who think a college or university 
education unnecessary for women. Among the best educated men, 
such a position probably has few supporters. 
