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and future in view, woman’s material and spiritual worth, her enforced position, and her true intent. I shall be more than compensated for whatever of time and labor I have expended, if my rushlight shall have discovered any path that shall lead into broader day. Of my inability to deal with so broad a subject, except in the most ephemeral way, and the many evidences of this that this little volume contains, I am well aware. I have made no attempt at assuming Saul’s armor, and shall be amply compensated if any of “the smooth stones from the brook,” I have thrown from a novice’s sling, may have found a vulnerable point in a giant wrong.
Wakefield, April, 1875.