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Personal Influence.

The relative position of men and women, it is generally conceded, furnishes data concerning the moral progress of a nation; yet their relations to each other, and the duties involved in marriage, present unusual difficulties to be solved, because we are still ignorant concerning their extent. One generalization is immediately confronted by another, accusing the first of falsity and exaggeration; individual experience is sure, but limited; though no science and no method of general action can be based on private experience.

Propriety itself has so long regulated the utterance of enthusiasm, knowledge, hope,

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