The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . them ineligible to office. There were two reasons for this: it was de-sired to throw the full responsi-bility on woman, compellingher to learn to preside and tothink, speak and act for her-self, which she never would doif men were present to performthese duties for her; and itwas feared that, on account oflong habit, men would soontake matters into their ownhands and gain control of thesociety, possibly to the extentof forbidding women to speakat the meetings.
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . them ineligible to office. There were two reasons for this: it was de-sired to throw the full responsi-bility on woman, compellingher to learn to preside and tothink, speak and act for her-self, which she never would doif men were present to performthese duties for her; and itwas feared that, on account oflong habit, men would soontake matters into their ownhands and gain control of thesociety, possibly to the extentof forbidding women to speakat the meetings. Many of theladies, however, objected to thisclause, among them AntoinetteBrown, who refused to join thesociety on account of it. So,yielding to the pressure, , on this first anniver-sary, said as this seemed tomany a violation of mensrights, and as the women hadnow learned to stand alone, itmight perhaps be safe to admitmen to all the privileges of thesociety, hoping, however, thatthey would modestly permitwoman to continue the workshe had so successfully be-gun. Miss Anthony, chairman ofthe committee on revising the.
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