Here Is My First Principle Of Foreign

Avarice, Where It Has Full Dominion, Excludes Every Other Passion.

Men Are Apt To Mistake The Strength Of Their Feeling For The Strength Of Their Argument. The Heated Mind Resents The Chill Touch And Relentless Scrutiny Of Logic.

I Am Inclined To Say That The Personal Attendance And Intervention Of Women In Election Proceedings, Even Apart From Any Suspicion Of The Wider Objects Of Many Of The Promoters Of The Present Movement, Would Be A Practical Evil Not Only Of The Gravest, But Even Of An Intolerable Character.

A Rational Reaction Against The Irrational Excesses And Vagaries Of Scepticism May, I Admit, Readily Degenerate Into The Rival Folly Of Credulity. To Be Engaged In Opposing Wrong Affords, Under The Conditions Of Our Mental Constitution, But A Slender Guarantee For Being Right.

It Is No Use For The Honorable Member To Shake His Head In The Teeth Of His Own Words.