Tennessee Celeste Claflin - While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevatin

While we honour religion and believe it to be a powerful factor in elevating our race, we discriminate, as we hope our readers will also do, between it and dogmatism. Dogmatism has been the bane of civilization and a curse to mankind. It has degraded our sex, stifled intelligent inquiry, and persecuted every independent reformer and every noble cause.

- Tennessee Celeste Claflin

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