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enfranchise women at all it should be done thoroughly. He said Mr Gladstone had shown that the Universities in Great Britain had opposed every great reform of this century. Dr Hodgkinson was lugubriously antagonistic. Instead of Sir John Hall being a friend to women he was their greatest enemy, for he was trying to put them in a position for which God Almighty had entirely unfitted them. The Bible showed the proper position of women. He believed that this doctrine as to the rights of women and their claims to suffrage came from below and not from above. It was contrary to the constitution of Nature and the ordinance of God. Mr Alfred
