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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)

CHAPTER VI
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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.


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