"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position."

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"The few bright meteors in man's intellectual horizon could well be matched by women, were she allowed to occupy the same elevated position."

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"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"

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"It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so."

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