s custom
separate her? The dilemma is clear, and can not be escaped. Both
should be called into counsel, every note in the scale of harmony
should be sounded; and to say that hers, because an octave
higher, should not be heard, is downright nonsense. (Rousing
cheers and laughter). We claim for woman simply the right to
decide her own sphere, or, in conjunction with man, to determine
what should be the relative position of both.

W. H. CHANNING said: When I was returning from the first Woman's
Rights Meeting at Worcester, a friend said to me, "I intend
getting up a Man's Rights Society; you misunderstand the matter;
all the efforts of society are for the elevation of woman, and
man has to perform the drudgery. The consequence is, the women
are far better educated than the men." The answer was obvious.
"If women are, according to your admission, fitted for the higher
plane, why keep them on the lower?" My friend then went on to
say, that the whole of this scheme was considered to be of the
most morally visionary character, and the proof of this feeling
was the slight opposition it met, "for," said he "if it were
looked on by society as serious, it would be at once, and
forcibly, opposed in the church, by the press, in all public
assemblies and private circles." Now, the object of this, and all
such conventions, is to prove that we have made up our minds as
regards operation and method; that we have looked clearly into
the future; and that we have at heart this movement, as we have
no other of the day, believing that out of this central agitation
of society will come healthful issues of life. The inhabitants of
Eastern India speak of a process for gaining immortality, namely,
churning together the sea and the earth. They say the gods had
the serpent by the head, and the devils had it by the tail, and
out of the churning of the foam came the waters of immortality.
The movement we are engaged in, may be typified by the Indian
allegory; and out of the commotion we make shall be drawn a new
principle which shall be one of immortal growth to all society.
(Stamping, cheers, and laughter).

As regards the differences between men and women, we say that out
of them grows union, not separation. Every organ of the body is
double; in the pulsations of