ge correctly of the fitness
and propriety, as well as of the power, of the means you have to be
employed. You would plan a thing better than you could use the
tools to make it. Your reasoning organs are gaining upon your
perceptions. At fifteen your mind was devoted to facts and
phenomena; of late years you have been thinking of principles and
ideas. You are a keen critic, especially if you can put wit as a
cracker on your whip; you can make people feel little and mean if
they are so, and when you are vexed can say very sharp things.

You are a good judge of character. You have a full development of
language devoted rather to accuracy and definiteness of meaning
than volubility; and yet I doubt not you talk fast when
excited--that belongs to your temperament. Your intellect is active
and your mind more naturally runs in the channel of intellect than
of feeling. It seeks an intellectual development rather than to be
developed through the affections merely. You have fair veneration
and spirituality but are nothing remarkable in these respects. Your
chief religious elements are conscience and benevolence; these are
your working religious organs, and a religion that does not gratify
them is to you "as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal."

Those who know Miss Anthony intimately will readily testify to the
accuracy of this analysis. It seems remarkable in view of the fact that
the examiner was in utter ignorance of the subject, and that, even if
he had known her name, she had not, at the age of thirty-three,
developed the characteristics which are now so familiar to the general
public.

[Illustration:

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
AT THE AGE OF 32, FROM A DAGUERREOTYPE.]

On this trip Miss Anthony was invited to spend an evening with Mr. and
Mrs. Greeley and met for the first time Charles A. Dana, Alice and
Phoebe Gary, Elizabeth F. Ellet, with a number of other literary men
and women of New York. Mr. Greeley himself opened the door for them and
sent them hunting through the house for a place to lay their wraps.
After awhile Mrs. Greeley came down stairs with a baby in her arms. She
had put her apron over its face and would not let the visitors look at
it "because their magnetism might affect it unfavorably." During the
evening she rang a bell and a man-servant came in. After a few words
with her he retired and presently brought in a big dish of cake