new element
which may establish the necessity of their being themselves
energetic and efficient. We need never hope to find any of this
class change, until compelled to do so by public sentiment. The
opposition here is really rabid. Intellectual women! oh, they are
monsters! As soon allow wild beasts to roam at large as these to
be let loose on society. Like lions and tigers, keep them in
their menagerie; perhaps they needn't be actually chained, but
see that they are well secured in their cages! (Stamping, groans,
and laughter).

These are far more bitterly hostile than the men of small
proportions, who are willing to have a great woman tower above
them from time to time--as a Madame de Stael. Such a case,
however, they would rank as an exception, not admit as a rule. To
allow women to stand every day in the foremost lines of intellect
and ability, is a thought altogether too expansive to be
entertained by them.

Such are the oppositions we meet; but they are all melting down
like frost-work before the morning sun. The day is dawning when
the intellect of woman shall be recognized as well as that of
man, and when her rights shall meet an equal and cordial
acknowledgment. The greatest wrong and injustice ever done to
woman is that done to her intellectual nature. This, like Goliath
among the Philistines, overtops all the rest. Drones are but the
robbers of the hive; ladies educated to no purpose are but
surfeited to a dronish condition on the sweets of literature.
Such minds are not developed, but molded in a fashionable
pattern.

LUCY STONE said: It has been stated that we women were not fit
for anything but to stay in the house! I look over the events of
the last five years, and almost smile at the confutation of this
statement which they supply. Let it not be supposed that I wish
to depreciate the value of house-duties, or the worth of the
woman who fitly discharges them. No! I think that any woman who
stands on the throne of her own house, dispensing there the
virtues of love, charity, and peace, and sends out of it into the
world good men, who may help to make the world better, occupies a
higher position than any crowned head. However, we said women
could do more; they could enter the professions, and there serve
soci