He declared: "Here is an attempt to introduce a vast social evil.

I have been trying for four years,[_i.e._ ever since Miss Anthony's first appearance at a teachers' convention] to escape this question, but if it has to come, let it be boldly met and disposed of.

I am opposed to anything that has a tendency to impair the sensitive delicacy and purity of the female character or to remove the restraints of life.

These resolutions are the first step in the school which seeks to abolish marriage, and behind this picture I see a monster of social deformity." Another speaker, whose name is lost in oblivion, said in tones which would melt a heart of stone: "Shall an oak and a rose tree receive the same culture?
Better to us is the clear, steady, softened, silvery moonlight of woman's quiet, unobtrusive influence, than the flashes of electricity showing that the true balance of nature is destroyed.

Aye, better a thousand times is it than the glimmering ignus fatuus rising from decayed hopes and leading the deluded follower to those horrible quagmires of social existence--amalgamation and Mormonism." Prof.John W.Buckley, of Brooklyn, opposed the resolution in coarse and abusive language.