He never grew weary of expounding principles to us and dissipating the fogs and mists that gather over young minds educated in an atmosphere of superstition.
We had a constant source of amusement and vexation in the students in my father's office.

A succession of them was always coming fresh from college and full of conceit.

Aching to try their powers of debate on graduates from the Troy Seminary, they politely questioned all our theories and assertions.

However, with my brother-in-law's training in analysis and logic, we were a match for any of them.

Nothing pleased me better than a long argument with them on woman's equality, which I tried to prove by a diligent study of the books they read and the games they played.