Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1815-1961. Diaries. 1853-1856, with scattered later entries, most n.d. A-143, folder 8. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

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'Senex' of "The Lily" - was Anson Bingham - of Nassau - Rensaeler C. N. Y. _____

Had letter of introduction to Mary F. Lone - (Mrs. L. G. Lone) from Giles B. Stebbins - May 22d 1952 - saying I know you will take Susan by the hand & do all possible.

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He loses her whom he loves; No, he is only separated from her; she is only elsewhere, and there transfigured.

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Extracts from Frances Wrights Few Days in Athens or Epicurus

Page 13. Who that hath seen virtue doth not love her, & pant after her possession? -

He who admires virtue yields her but half her due. She asks to be approached, to be embraced - not with fear, but with confidence not with awe but with rapture

Yet who can gaze on Zeus & hope to rival him?

You, my young friend, why should you not? You have innocence; you have sensibility; you have enthusiasm; you have ambition -

With what better promise could Zeus begin his career? Courage! Courage! My love! We want but the will to be as great as Zeus -

14th Thousands have the seeds of excellence in them, who never discover the possessions -- All men canot be Poets or Philosophers, but all men may be virtuous -

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Page 16 There is some risk in following one particular sect, even the most perfect, lest the mind become warped & the heart contracted - No sect without its prejudices & its predilections -

18 Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors, and many atheisti cal, not for denying [of?] God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarliarly of him -

The first & the last thing I would say to man is Think for yourself

25 He who is about to prove that his own way of thinking is right, must bear in mind that he is about also to prove also to prove that all other ways of thinking are wrong & if this makes him slow to enter on the undertaking it should make him yet more careful when he does enter on it, to do it with becom ing modesty -

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26 The Mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

It is as hard to receive the words of wisdom from the ungentle, as it is to love, or even to recognize virtue in the austere.

30 None can drink of the cup of vice with impunity --

33 But why not answer him? And so I do. I answer him in my life. The only way in which a Philosopher should ever answer a fool, or as in this case a knave --

37 Speaking of Mans young soul It is yet tender, yet pure, years shall strengthen it -- oh let them, not sully it! See that luminary & lovely & glorious in the dawn, he gathers strength & beauty to his meridian, & passes in peace & grandeur to his rest. So do thou my son. - Open your ears, & your eyes, know & choose what is good, enter the path of virtue & thou shalt follow it, for thou shalt find it sweet.

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Thorns are not in it, nor is it difficult or steep; like the garden you have now entered, all there is pleasure & repose. --

The doctrine of Zeno is sublime; Many great men shall come from his school, & an amiable world from mine. -- Zeno hath his eye on Man, I, mine on men - None but Philosophers can be slaves; Epicureans all may be --

Doctors quarrel more about words than things, more about the means than the end

Form your judgements upon knowledge not report --

57 The perfection of wisdom, & the end of true Philosophy, is to proportion our want to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities --

59 Ambition is the spur, & the necessary spur of a great mind to great action

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When acting upon a weak mind it impels it to absurdity and sours it with discontent -

72 He who knows, & knowing can acknowledge his deficiency, though his foot be not on the summit, yet he hath he his eye there --

89 Let us quiet our passions, not by gratifying, but subduing them; let us conquer our meanness, not by rest, but by exertion-- Thus do I win their ears & their confidence. Step by step I lead them on. I lay upon the mysteries of science; I expose the beauties of art; I call the graces & the muses to my aid; the song, the lyre & the dance. Temperance presides at the repast, innocence at the festival; disgust is changed to satisfaction, listlessness to curiosity; brutality, to elegance; lust gives place to love; Bachanalian hilarity to friendship. --

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Tell me not, Zeno, that the teacher is vicious who washes depravity from the youthful heart, who logs the storm of its passions, & turns all its sensibilities to good

99 Explanation always approaches or widen differences between friends --

102 He who has many friends must have many enemies, for you know he must be the abject mark of envy, jealousy & spleen --

110 Any single study, however useful & noble in itself, is unworthy, the entire employ of a curious & powerful intellect - the man who pursues one line of knowl edge, to the exclusion of others, though he should follow it up to its very end, would never be learned or wise --