But as he grew taller and broader the horizon of woman widened, and her sphere embraced every duty, responsibility, and right for which her gifts and education fitted her.

The hard and fast lines of sex disappeared from his geography of the soul.

He perceived for a truth that in humanity there was neither male nor female, but that man and woman were one in work and destiny--equals in bearing the world's burden, equals in building the world's glory.

He heard in his heart the injunction of the eternal wisdom saying: "Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder;" and straightway disposed his opinions and prejudices, his thoughts and purposes in cordial obedience therewith.

He saw at once the immense value of woman's influence in the temperance movement, he saw no less quickly her importance in the anti-slavery reform, and he had appealed to her for help in the work of both, and she had justified his appeal and proven herself the most devoted of coadjutors.
In the beginning of the movement against slavery the line of demarcation between the sexes was strictly observed in the formation of societies.
The men had theirs, the women theirs.