or State, depend upon it for their character
and action. Its evils are the source of all evils; its good the
fountain of all good. The correction of its abuses is the
starting-point of all the reforms which the world needs.

Dr. Harriot K. Hunt attracted much attention from the fact of her
yearly protest against taxation. In the course of her remarks she
said, "Unseen spirits have been with us in this Convention; the
spirits of our Shaker sisters whom untold sorrows have driven into
those communal societies, the convents of our civilization."

After quite a brilliant discussion, in which Mr. Brigham made himself
a target for Lucy Stone, Martha C. Wright, Eliza Aldrich, Clarina
Howard Nichols, Harriot K. Hunt, and Mrs. Palmer to shoot at,
Antoinette L. Brown offered the following resolution, and made a few
good points on the Bible argument:

_Resolved_, That the Bible recognizes the rights, duties, and
privileges of woman as a public teacher, as every way equal with
those of man; that it enjoins upon her no subjection that is not
enjoined upon him; and that it truly and practically recognizes
neither male nor female in Christ Jesus.

God created the first human pair equal in rights, possessions,
and authority. He bequeathed the earth to them as a joint
inheritance; gave them joint dominion over the irrational
creation; but none over each other. (Gen. i. 28). They sinned.
God announced to them the results of sin. One of these results
was the rule which man would exercise over woman. (Gen. iii. 16).
This rule was no more approved, endorsed, or sanctioned by God,
than was the twin-born prophecy, "thou (Satan) shalt bruise his
(Christ's) heel." God could not, from His nature, command Satan
to injure Christ, or any other of the seed of woman. What
particle of evidence is there then for supposing that in the
parallel announcement He commanded man to rule over woman? Both
passages should have been translated will, instead of shall.
Either auxiliary is used indifferently according to the sense, in
rendering that form of the Hebrew verb into English.

Because thou hast done this, is God's preface to the
announcement. The results are the effects of sin. Can woman then
receive evil from this rule, and man receive good? Man should be
blessed in exercising this power, if he is divinely appointed