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���in which woman has been held. At one time condemned to the field and counted with the cattle, at another time con- demned to the drawing-room and in- ventoried with marbles, oils and water- colors ; but only in instances compara- tively rare, acknowledged and recognized in the fullness of her moral and intel- lectual possibiUties, and in the beaute- ous completeness of her personal dig- nity, prowess and obligation."

�� ��Various and widely divergent as opin- ions are in regard to woman's place in the political sphere, there is fast com- ing to be unanimity of thought in re- gard to her intellectual development. Even in Turkey, fathers are beginning to see that their daughters are better, not worse, for being able to read and write, and civilization is about ready to concede that the intellectual, physical and moral possibilities of woman are to

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