No, men will be gentler, and wimmen nobler, and they will
both come nearer bein' angels, though most probable they won't be any too
good then, I hain't a mite afraid of it."
VI
"CONCERNING MOTH-MILLERS AND MINNY FISH"
The Senator kinder sithed, and that sithe sort o' brought me down onto my
feet agin as it were, and a sense of my duty, and I spoke out agin:
"Can you and will you do Serepta's errents?"
He evaded a direct answer by sayin', "As you alluded to the little indirect
ways of women, dearest madam, you will pardon me for saying that it is
my belief that the soft gentle brains of females are unfitted for the
deep hard problems men have to grapple with. They are too doll-like, too
angelically and sweetly frivolous."
"No doubt," sez I, "some wimmen are frivolous and some men foolish, for
as Mrs. Poyser said, 'God made women to match the men,' but these few
hadn't ort to disfranchise the hull race of men and wimmen. And as to soft
brains, Maria Mitchell discovered planets hid from masculine eyes from the
beginnin' of time, and do you think that wimmen can't see the black spots
on the body politic, that darkens the life of her and her children?
"Madame Curie discovered the light that looks through solid wood and iron,
and you think wimmen can't see through unjust laws and practices, the
rampant evils of to-day, and see what is on the other side, see a remedy
for 'em.
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