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done for Freethought. Marilla is born
Freethinker and her reason has been her
guide through life. She never learned wis
dom from her mothers knee she learned it
from old mother Nature.
Sad is the fact that the average Christian
woman cultivates the wisdom in her knee.
and never brings her brain power into
action. but kneels before the fetches set
up for her by the clergy, and while she
prays and teaches her children knee re,
lgon the clergy prey upon her credulity,
fear, vitality, and substance. This woman
is so deep a thinker, that the faith de-
livered to the saints" always capitulates to
her robust reasoning. The Pope of Rome
and his cardinals, the archbishops of Can
terbury combined with the high prelates of
the religious world hold not so helpful and
honored place in the progress of the
world as this American woman, with her
great mind sterling common sense. sublime
courage and splendid individuality.
Ebert Hubbard says of Marilla she had
no predecessors, she never will have a sue
cessor she has no duplicates; and the only
person who looks like her is Marlla
Kicker" and he is right She is an ndi.
vidualized self-poised self-converted indie.
pendent woman. The chrome woman man,
ufactured from the cut made by the clergy,
(and her number is legion), is a burden to
herself, and a bar to the progress of the
world. Christianity proclams in its Bible.
creeds and canons, that woman is an infer
ior creature. and it has always scorned and
outlawed the questioning woman Marga
ret Fuller, a Matilda Joslyn Gage, an Eliza
beth Cady Stanton or Maria Kicker
could scuttle the ship of Zion with their
knowledge and regal reasoning its robed
masculine dignitaries
The Christian clergy are mental towards
They dare not engage in open. honorable
intellectual battle, and their religion is only
safe until arise i'm the majesty of
wOmanhoOd, and demand equality in church
and state or know the reason why. When
women give more time to Reason and COM
mon sense. and less to religion and 70.
nance, both of which are mental delusions;
when women dethrone priests. and
throne Reason, when women refuse obedi-
ence to man made religions and laws, ana
obey their own sense Of right and justice,
the dawn of the golden age will be upon us.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Marila NJ.
Kicker are the two American women whose
words and deeds shine with respondent
lstre in the mental liberation of the race,
and when Justice reigns their names will
be enshrined in the Pantheon of Immortas.
Robert G. Tngersoll is the mental and
moral titan of modern times, and he has
had more tributes penned by great minds,
than any man that has lived for centuries.
but of them all. Marila M. Kicker is his
greatest eulogist. Her tributes to the inn
mortal Thomas Paine and the immortal
Robert G. Ingersol are classics that
not eXcelled in literature, except by Paine
and Ineersoll themselves.
Marilla is not only strong and polished
writer but her humor is equal to her sense
of justice, and flashes from her sentences
like the tips of bayonets in moving
column under a strong seenlight.
Marilla always reminds me of Shakes,
peare's Rosand in her charming sallies of
wit. In her the ardor of youth never
burns to ashes. She expects no reward but