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which, his sisters are handicapped, why they are so
averse to wholesome out-of-door exercise, and
consequently enfeebled both in mind and body.
I have very strong opinions on this subject, and
am quite satisfied that all who agitate for the
social elevation of woman have hitherto wasted
their efforts, having failed to strike at the root of
the evils they deplore. It is a gross fallacy to
assert that woman is subject to the despotic rule
of the male sex. The fact is exactly the reverse
of this. But woman is the abject slave of a
crushing, grinding, pulverizing, morally annihilating
despotism—that of the obscure, nameless, unknown
humbugs who, inspired by the demon of ugliness,
draw, paint, print, and publish those hideous
caricatures, those foul libels on the human form
divine, those pictorial atrocities which periodically
emerge from an unknown somewhere and
represent the “Modes de Paris.” The worship of this
hideous fetish is the principal source of female
degradation.
When I was young and sentimental I
advocated female suffrage, but have long since given it
up, and why? Simply because the stability of a
constitutional country demands that the voters
who govern it shall have some stability in their
ideas and principles. National ruin must
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