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Jesse Macy essay on women's suffrage, 1890s
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conscience as I do not possess, and in the nature of things never can possess. It is true there may be extraneous arguments advanced on both sides of this question. We might bring forward examples to prove the political ability of women or the reverse; we might exhibit certain [alogies?] from nature, such as men always use to prove the correctness of both sides of every question as for example Ch's Rollin has proven to the world that the monarchal is the true form of government; for says he "Behold the community of bees all regulated and harmonized according to this system." He might just as easily have proved the opposite proposition had he gone into the field and kicked the clods off of an ant hill and thus brought to light and exclaimed a pure democracy working to a charm." Again there may be arguments drawn from revelation. Eminent divines on both sides have tried perhapse with equal success to prove the correctness of their respective propositions No single age, nor no single people ever understood the entire spirits meaning of the bible and its application to the details of life; hence we signally fail even here to find any decission of the great question "shall women vote?" To whome then shall we fly? and where shall we go? We have compassed the world and none could answer? We have appealed our own experience, and been beaten back
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conscience as I do not possess, and in the nature of things never can possess. It is true there may be extraneous arguments advanced on both sides of this question. We might bring forward examples to prove the political ability of women or the reverse; we might exhibit certain [alogies?] from nature, such as men always use to prove the correctness of both sides of every question as for example Ch's Rollin has proven to the world that the monarchal is the true form of government; for says he "Behold the community of bees all regulated and harmonized according to this system." He might just as easily have proved the opposite proposition had he gone into the field and kicked the clods off of an ant hill and thus brought to light and exclaimed a pure democracy working to a charm." Again there may be arguments drawn from revelation. Eminent divines on both sides have tried perhapse with equal success to prove the correctness of their respective propositions No single age, nor no single people ever understood the entire spirits meaning of the bible and its application to the details of life; hence we signally fail even here to find any decission of the great question "shall women vote?" To whome then shall we fly? and where shall we go? We have compassed the world and none could answer? We have appealed our own experience, and been beaten back
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