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62 pleased to call her brain, and focused themselves on the point in question.

If the discussion were in a field in which she had made no excursions whatever, that trifling detail did not impose silence upon her. She simply rose, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, though a stranger in your midst, I feel I must say a word of sympathy to you, and a word of encouragement for your cause. It is a good and worthy movement, and I honor you for upholding it.  Often and often have I said to my classes, it matters not what face of truth is revealed to you so long as you get a vision that will help you to bless your fellow men.  To bless your fellow men is the great task before each and every one of us, and I feel to urge this specially upon occasions like this, when I see a large and influential audience before me.  Says Rudyard Kipling, 'I saw a hundred men on the road to Delhi, and they were all my brothers.'  Yes, all our brothers!  The brotherhood of man and the sisterhood of woman, those are the subjects that include all others.  I am glad to have met with you, and to have heard the eloquent words of your speakers. If any of you would like to know more of my work, I will