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 mentally as well as physically he is a less complex and less wonderful being than his mate. I say I think all this quite honestly and seriously; and yet I avoid my kind invariably, and consort on all occasions with the inferior human male, who, remember, I believe to have been created to do all the disagreeable work in the world for us women,—to keep the streets clean, govern the city, hang the murderers, make the laws, pay the butcher, and fight the battles."

With this exposition of Mrs. Harden's views concerning the sphere of man, the conversation came to an end.