The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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one sound; two hands for one movement; two feet for one
step; two lobes of the brain for one thought; two bony
plates cover the brain; two kinds of corpuscles in the blood,
one red, one white; two lobes of the lungs for one breath;
two divisions of the heart for one pulsation, and these two
parts again divide themselves; and so on. But this duality
of organs makes but one man and one woman, as the duality
of the sexes, one man and one woman, makes but one
humanity.
The highest civilization is not material only, but mental,
moral, and spiritual, and the best qualities of manhood and
womanhood united are necessary to its development. It
becomes,, therefore, the duty of women who are interested
in the welfare of the race, and who desire the advancement
of the Kingdom of God upon earth, to seek the enfranchisement of their sex. For legyal as well as social measures are
necessary to check vice and crime, and to uproot great
moral and social evils. To-day, women of the largest
administrative talent, of the highest culture, of the most farreaching philanthropy, and with a Christ-like passion for
promoting the public well-being, are doomed to enforced
inactivity, because their hands are tied, and their feet
manacled by disfranchisement. They ar6 regarded by men
as inferior to themselves, and with logical correctness. For
under a republican government, women can only become the
legal equals of men by possession of the ballot. This legral
inferiority, this degradation of disfranchisement loses to the
world the best qualities of womanhood, and makes it impos
sible for women to bring their sense of justice and righteousness to bear upon public questions.