ring in
prescribed limits, thinking other people's thoughts, and echoing
their opinions. This question of woman's rights affects the whole
human race. We know from sad experience that man can not rise
while woman is degraded.

Mrs. MOTT spoke of the great change in public sentiment within
her recollection in regard to the so-called sphere of woman.
Twenty years ago people wondered how a modest girl could attend
lectures on Botany; but modest girls did attend them and other
places frequented only by men, and the result was not a loss of
delicacy, but a higher and nobler development; a true modesty.

JOSEPH A. DUGDALE made a few remarks on the injustice of the laws
by which happy households are often broken up on the death of the
husband and father. He said there remained one way in which this
great evil could be avoided even while the law remains unchanged,
and that was by a will of the husband conveying the whole
property of their joint industry and economy to the wife, in the
event of his death. He urged this as the duty of every husband
and father. He closed his remarks with the following extract from
the will of Martin Luther, proving that other errors than those
of the Church, were deemed by the great reformer of sufficient
magnitude to awaken his earnest opposition:

MARTIN LUTHER'S WILL.

"This is all I am worth, and I give it all to my wife for the
following reasons:

"1. Because she has always conducted herself toward me lovingly,
worthily, and beautifully, like a pious, faithful, and noble
wife; and by the rich blessings of God, she has borne and brought
up five living children, who yet live, and God grant they may
long live.

"2. Because she will take upon herself and pay the debts which I
owe and may not be able to pay during my life, which, so far as I
can estimate, may amount to about 450 florins, or perhaps a
little more.

"3. But most of all, because I will not have her dependent on the
children, but the children on her; that they may hold her in
honor, and submit themselves to her as God has commanded. For I
see well and observe, how the devil, by wicked and envious
mouths, heats and excites children, even though they be pious,
against this command; especially when the mothers are w