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Rh of sound common sense. Something must be done to put an end to this absurdity, this shame, this scandal. So long as women were satisfied with the honor of being pampered as mere elegant dolls, and amusing playthings, the demands made upon their reason, even with regard to their external appearance, corresponded to this lot; the sillier the better. Nobody can be used to better advantage than the fool. But since the word goes round that women are also human beings, and as rational human beings can lay claim to and make use of human rights, it is high time that they doff the uniform, so to speak, which they wore in their former state of servitude.

I vote for the motion and suggest that both the motion and the debate upon it be separately printed and sent to all the votaries of fashion whose addresses we can ascertain."

Accepted.

Seventh Motion — Where the men are still subjects, the liberty and rights of women are entirely out of the question. Only in a republic is there any possibility of demanding and attaining the rights of women. An address ought, therefore, to be drawn up, to the women of Germany, in which the cause of their degradation is made clear to them and in which they are exhorted to spur the men on toward the revolutionizing and republicanizing of their fatherland, and to bring up their children in this spirit.

In giving the reasons for this motion, attention was called to the sad fact that in the fatherland of