I have just come
from the library, in one of whose alcoves sits Miss Dix, and fills the members
that she calls about her with her divine magnetism. When I see her and some
others, how I do long to have her portion of the human race rise to their true condition!
I am for "woman's rights," in the highest sense of the word; not for
her being made a politician, a soldier, a judge, or a president, but for her
entering that glorious sphere of benevolence which Nature has opened, but which
the selfishness and shortsightedness of men have hitherto closed up. . . . She
is full of anxiety about her bill now before Congress. She reminds me of my old
anxiety for some of my educational measures; and in this particularly, that I
see, that, as soon as she can accomplish her present plans, she has others
lying behind, and ready to be brought forward to take the place of the
successful ones.
One fortnight from
to-day, we close!
I hope to have but
one more black Tuesday in this place. . .
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 330-1
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