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cherish for Susan B. Anthony.

The remonstrants today tell us that our movement will destroy the
affectionate tenderness of the womanly nature and unsex woman until
she becomes a weak man. I believe in men, and I do not believe that
all the love, the tenderness, the power to sacrifice is feminine. I
believe that the love of man is as true and deep and tender as the
love of woman. I will not accept the theory that "man is the head"
and "woman is the heart." I believe that when God created head and
heart for the human race He divided them equally and gave man his
part and woman hers, and both have kept their own all the way down
the centuries.

The part of Miss Anthony's life which is dearest to us is that into
which she has admitted the few who belong to the sacred inner
circle, who have seen her toil, her suffering, her soul's anguish
and travail for the freedom, the larger growth, the diviner
possibilities of womanhood; and if there is any evidence that
living in the world, working for its uplift, does not destroy this
trait in human character, it is shown in the life of Miss Anthony.
There is no human being whom I have ever known who had more
tenderness for the erring and greater willingness to overlook the
frailties of human life. In this she shows that contact with the
most disagreeable side of the reformer's work, makes the real woman
not less but more womanly. I believe that if the principles which
she advocates, the ideals for which she stands, were embodied in
all womankind, we would have a motherhood diviner than any this
world has ever known, a motherhood such as God had in his thought
when he created woman to be the mother of the race....

It is not a name we love today, it is not a person we revere, but a
great, an ideal life of a woman who has battled with the world, who
has been misunderstood, who has borne its scorn, who has been
ostracised, and who, in the midst of all, has kept her life sweet,
her heart young, her love tender; and when the best thing shall be
said of her which men and women can say, it will be--she was true,
she was noble, she was woman.

The day after the meeting of the Historical Society, occurred the
Anthony Reunion at the old homestead, when eighty of the clan sat down
at the long tables spread in grandfath