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192 fathers. You will, indeed, have to admit that we have never extended such compliments to the masculine intellect as you have to the feminine. It has. never occurred to a woman to teach man that it is their destiny to become fathers. I am almost tempted to interpret your words as the most bitter irony. That men have denied us the right to become mothers, that complaint, Mr. Ruge, we surely never had any occasion to make.

If they had always been as solicitous about everything else as they have been about maternity, we