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Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

CHAPTER XVII
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The president of the lyceum was a sensible young man who, after graduating at Ann Arbor, decided, instead of starving at the law, to work with his hands and brains at the same time.

When all men go to their legitimate business of creating wealth, developing the resources of the country, and leave its mere exchange to the weaker sex, we shall not have so many superfluous women in the world with nothing to do.

It is evident the time has come to hunt man into his appropriate sphere.
Coming from Chicago, I met Governor Fairchild and Senator Williams of Wisconsin.

It was delightful to find them thoroughly grounded in the faith of woman suffrage.

They had been devout readers of the _Revolution_ ever since Miss Anthony induced them to subscribe, the winter before, at Madison.


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