be _governed_, whether in Church or State; and that the present arrangements of society, on these points, are _a violation of human rights_, _a rank usurpation of power_, a violent seizure and confiscation of what is sacredly and inalienably hers--thus inflicting upon woman outrageous wrongs, working mischief incalculable in the social circle, and in its influence on the world producing only evil, and that continually. _If_ Ecclesiastical and Civil governments are ordained of God, _then_ I contend that woman has just as much right to sit in solemn counsel in Conventions, Conferences, Associations and General Assemblies, as man--just as much right to sit upon the throne of England, or in the Presidential chair of the United States. Dost thou ask me, if I would wish to see woman engaged in the contention and strife of sectarian controversy, or in the intrigues of political partizans? I say no! never--never. I rejoice that she does not stand on the same platform which man now occupies in these respects; but I mourn, also, that he should thus prostitute his higher nature, and vilely cast away his birthright. I prize the purity of _his_ character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, _whatever it is morally wrong for her to do, it is morally wrong for him to do_. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes. As my time is engrossed by the pressing responsibilities of daily public duty, I have no leisure for that minute detail which would be required for the illustration and defence of these principles. Thou wilt find a wide field opened before thee, in the investigation of which, I doubt not, thou wilt be instructed. Enter this field, and explore it: thou wilt find in it a hid treasure, more precious than rubies--a fund, a mine of principles, as new as they are great and glorious.