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 waste of the present one,—no (metaphorical) ‘lake of fire which is the second death.’ If—whether by a series of more or less distressful lines in other forms, or by some other equally rational and natural mode—the Hereafter is to readjust by its rewards and punishments the seemingly unjust distribution of good and evil here—then those among us, men or women, who instead of helping purposely do what in them lies to hinder this work of the regeneration of human society by its female portion, may reasonably fear lest the authorities they will have to settle with there hold them personally responsible, in their degree, for the plagues of disease and war in the earth.