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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
ollo, since you have exhausted manly beauty, as think to stir all the depths of music with only half the chords. [Applause.] The diapason of human thought was never struck till Christian culture summoned woman into the republic of letters; and experience as well as nature tells us, what God hath joined, let not man put asunder. [Applause.] I welcome woman, therefore, to the platform of the world's teachers, and I look upon the world, in a very important sense, as one great school. As Humboldt said, ten years ago, Governments, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build a man. Earth holds up to her Master no fruit but the finished man. Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. To change Bryant a little: The hills, Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun, The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, and, poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melanch