rs woman most may despise her in his heart.

Think what great men of the world have said of woman. Voltaire
said: "Ideas are like beards--women and young men have none."
Lessing, the German, says: "The woman who thinks is like a man
who puts on rouge--ridiculous." Dr. Maginn, that accomplished
literary man, says: "We like to hear a few words of wit from a
woman, just as we like to hear a few words of sense from a
parrot--because they are so unexpected." These things were never
said to women, but they were said of them. In the presence of
female intellect, men are very often like that Englishman who was
reproached by the judge in the police-court, because he, being a
very large, athletic man, allowed his wife, who was a very
delicate, puny woman, occasionally, to beat him. Said the judge:
"How can you allow it? you have ten times her strength." "Oh,"
said the giant, drawing himself up to his full stature, "it is no
great matter; it pleases her, and it don't hurt me." That is the
way men deal with female intellect--they like to amuse themselves
with it, to flatter it as an entertaining trifle. But when it
comes in earnest, and shows itself, then it is that these men
stand apart from the new spectacle of a woman transformed into a
thinker and worker; while true men rejoice to see nobleness in a
woman. There is not a man here who does not, in his own highest
moments, reverence in woman the same qualities he admires in
himself, if he thinks he claims them. Power of clear thought and
of heroic action--every man admires these in woman in the best
moments of his life. It is when he lowers himself to the level of
the public meeting, or of the fashionable drawing-room, that he
is changed into a flatterer, and he who flatters always despises
the object of his flattery.

Another source of opposition to this movement among women is
founded in Fear. It does not require much courage for a man to
stand on a Woman's Rights platform. I do not say that it does not
require more than a good many men have, for it would be difficult
to find a thing so easy as not to do that. He, of course, has to
run the gauntlet of the old nonsense of "strong-minded women and
weak-minded men." Well, I am willing to be accounted weak-minded
in the presence of strength of mind and h