Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria.

The queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning ehance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius.

And so it is the world over. The time is coming when a man will be rated at his real worth, and that by his brain and heart. We care nothing about an officer unless he fills his place. No matter if he is president, if he rattles in the place nobody cares anything about him. I might give you instances in point—but I won't. The world is getting better and grander and nobler every day.

Now, if men have been slaves; if they have crawled in the dust before one another, what shall I say of women? They have been the slaves of men. It took thousands of ages to bring women from abject slavery up to the divine height of page 9 marriage. I believe in marriage. If there is any heaven upon earth it is in the family by the fireside, and the family is a unit; of government. Without