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Show ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. ' iJJHjfl Great woman she, but wrongly born. As a man " 1 1;J! jffl she would have been a power equal to the fore- 2 r'trtPB most. She had an intellect, a firmness, a courage m 'iH that would have made her in the ranks of men J m f f 1H the equal of her namesake, the great war Secre- j - $jj '" tary. As it was, she accepted her fate. As a wo- i . f J , H man she was a superb wife, a devoted mother. . L, ftffl She shrank from no duty that fate had in store for 1 C'jJB her, but feeling her own vast superiority over the jhjp j'AB average man, she rebelled against tho ancient ' P'lVhffl claim of woman's inferiority, and in tho name of mw fl"-FH justice demanded her full rights. She was not H'lliB like any other woman's rights woman. Had pl jfM most of the rest of them been men, they would v HHI have doubted whether the sphere of woman made m I Mfjl it possible for them to emancipate themselves f f ' B from the toils that surround them and to fill ac- It ' 'fl ceptably the full duties of citizenship. Had Mrs. : V n Stanton been a man she would have declared that Mit , iJH only brain and heart rule; that when a woman .8,8 llffl has Jiore brain and heart than a man, she is the 1 m f 'kSflB better citizen of the two. She performed a great H I ClB work; she was an evangel for her sex; she was a I l 1 shining light in the world; she followed the path M.J tlH of duty to where it ende in honor and everlast- 'aft 1M ing peace. God rest her soul. m I '"fl urn sH |