his truth from their deepest chambers.

... Doom woman no longer to banishment from the hallowed ground
of Church and State. She has too long been but as the Pariah of
the desert. Welcome her ministrations reverently to her human
nature, kindly to her present weakness, encouragingly to her
hopes; receive her counsels with respect and confidence, so far
as they are worthy, and be assured that a better day will begin
to dawn. The birth of a new spiritual life will be given in this
new marriage, and melody as from the harps of angels will be
breathed from the circles of earth.

PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS: ... We commence life where our fathers left
it. We have their mistakes and their achievements. We attempt to
walk in the paths they trod, and wear the garments left by them;
but they are all too short and narrow for us; they deform and
cramp our energies; for they demand the Procrustean process to
conform the enlarged natures of the present to the past. While
the human soul, like the infinite in wisdom and love, is ever
governed by the eternal law of progress, creeds and codes are
always changing. All things founded in immutable truth grow only
the stronger by every trial.

... The sacred traditions of both Jew and Gentile agree in
ascribing to woman a primary agency in the introduction of human
evils. In the Greek Mythology, she is indeed not the first
offender; but she is the bearer of the box that contained all the
crimes and diseases which have punished our world for the abuse
of liberty. It is worthy of remark that Pandora, who is the Eve
of the Grecian system, being like her Hebrew correspondent,
created for special purposes, was the joint work of all the gods.
Venus gave her beauty, Minerva wisdom, Apollo the art of music,
Mercury eloquence, and the rest the perfection and completeness
of all her divine accomplishments. Her name signifies gifts from
all.

"A combination and a form Indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a paragon."

Prometheus made the first man of clay and animated him with fire
stolen from Heaven. Jupiter is represented as attaching the
terrible consequences of a rational and responsible vitality,
thus conferred upon a creation of earth, by sending this