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upon whom, as "mother of the living," depends the progress of
man, is denied any other than a limited and indirect influence in
the fabric of society.

We may abolish slavery, remove intemperance, banish war and
licentiousness, but they will have frightful reproduction in the
elemental discord of our natures; for that which is "in us will
be revealed." Man indicates his condition by the institutions he
creates; they are the issues of the life he lives at the time,
the outward sign of his inward state.

To improve that inward condition, and arrest at their origin
these causes of human degeneracy, is the object of this reform.
It proposes, as before stated, not only to cure, but to prevent
the diseases of the body politic; to place man and woman in such
natural and true relations of equal and mutual development, and
to so sanctify marriage that from their union under the highest
auspices, a regenerate humanity shall not only cease to be
violent and vicious, but shall outgrow the dispositions to
violence and vice.

We know that this is a work for whole generations, but as we
believe it to be radical and effectual, it should be at once
begun. We think the first great step is to clear away the rubbish
of ages from the pathway of woman, to abolish the onerous
restrictions which environ her in every direction, to open to her
the temples of religion, the halls of science and of art, and the
marts of commerce, affording her the same opportunity for
education and occupation now enjoyed by man; no longer, by
corrupt public sentiment and partial legislation, to limit her to
a few and poorly paid pursuits to obtain subsistence and thus
increase her dependence upon the charity of man, nor to deny her
admission to any institution of learning, whose richly endowed
professorships and vast advantages she by her labor has
contributed to create, only to see them monopolized by man. I
know that in answer to this it is urged that she has organic
limits intellectually which deny to her such attainments. It is
sufficient to reply, that under all the disabilities to which she
is subject, her sex has produced De Stael and Margaret Fuller.

Letters were read from Mary Mott, of Auburn, De Kalb County, Indiana;
Paulina Wright Davis, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, William