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    WOMEN AND CO-OPEBATION. 375

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    and chivalry in the we development are has left long p to face since of the perfect gone fact , to relations that the women limbo between h of av the e become the Transitional sexes subject , but , shall not eatOf

    to the judgment , " She who will not work , . "

    Women And Co-Opebation. 375

    WOMEN AND CO-OPEBATION . 375

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/15/