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Rh of the Anti-Vaccination League." (Mrs. Grubb was especially happy in her anti-societies; negatives seemed to give her more scope for argument.)  "I say to my classes, 'You must not blame those to whom higher truths do not appeal, for refusing to believe in that which they cannot understand; but you may reprove them for decrying or ridiculing those laws or facts of nature which they have never investigated with an unprejudiced mind.'  Well, I must be going. I’ve sat longer than I meant to, this room is so peaceful and comfortable."

"But what about Lisa’s future? We haven’t settled that, although we’ve had a most interesting and illuminating conversation."

"Why, I’ve told you how I feel about her, and you must respect my feeling. The world can only grow when each person allows his fellow-man complete liberty of thought and action.  I’ve kept the child four years, and now when my good care and feeding, together with the regular work and early hours I’ve always prescribed, have begun to show their fruits in her improved condition, you want she should be put in some institution.  Why, isn’t she