Their object is disunion.
The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
Disunion by force is treason.
I rise today with no small measure of regret, regret because of the state of our disunion, regret because of the disrepair and destructiveness of our politics, regret because of the indecency of our discourse.
The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion.
Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis.