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Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.
Drown'd, all drown'd,
In that great sea which nothing disembogues.
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature in its moments of intoxication has produced, that which men have contrived with a view to forming the minds and regulating the conduct of women, is perhaps the most completely absurd.
I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it ...
