Word: hypatia
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...Hypatia was a woman...
Therefore, Hypatia was mortal...
...true, I hear, that our knowledge is not increased by such deductions for I must already know that Hypatia is a mortal woman before I can intuit the first proposition: "All women are mortal." But, ye faithless ones, must mere logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls...
...London, the will of Arthur Pepper, who left property of ?95, gave power of attorney to a relative named Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysses Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetta Zenus Pepper...
...cites the case of Hypatia, wife of Theon; he cites the case of Judge Mary Barteleme of Chicago. Does he prove anything? The answer is obvious. He proves as much as Al Jolson when he croons the need of the old plantation, mammy, and a ticket to Mobile. American women don't need any sentimentalizing. From the late years of the last century they have had much too much of that. And few of the intelligent ones, the Bypatias of Spoon River and Lynn and Beacon Bill, would care for the sugared accents of the dying bowman. Arthur is passing...