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hall, where she can discourse on "the ― isn't sure what word to use; something which shows that religion and science don't exactly contradict each other." Others have lectures on Icelandic and Persian mythology as known through encyclopædias, on the Visions to Be, on the Centripetal Force of all Systems of Philosophies, on Woman's Duties, Needs, and Missions. All have something to say, and all think they ought to be helped. Some one said that within the last two years a hundred applications had been made to her personally, all for work which required more or less exercise of brain-power; and that not in a single case was there evidence that the applicant possessed more than the desire to be cultured, rather than culture itself.

Eloquence is such a noble gift that it is sad to see so many women who have studied oratory, anatomically and physiologically, philosophically and psychologically, desire to make their living by readings and lectures; if

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