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It has already been observed that women, wherever placed, however high or low in the scale of cultivation, hold the destinies of human kind. Men will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex.
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Lecture II: Of Free Inquiry, considered as a Means for obtaining Just Knowledge

 

Frances Wright

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