THE REFORM AGAINST NATURE. BY HORACE BUSHNELL NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER AND COMPANY. 1869. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, By CHARLES SCRIBNER & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for TO THE PUBLIC. It is not to be supposed that this little volume has finished the argument of a subject so large, and, in former times, so entirely unattempted. If it brings the question to some fixed issue, taking it away from the mere chance-working it has had hitherto, it will have done the service proposed. And if the projected reform is totally different from all other reforms, in the times gone by, in the fact that it is a reform against nature-an attempt to make trumpets out of flutes, and sun-flowers out of violets, the discovery can not be difficult, and it will save us much trouble if it is made soon. I take pleasure in acknowledging my obligations to Rev. Mr. Alger, in his book on the Friendships of Women, for a good many historic facts and references that would otherwise have cost me much labor. Also, to Rev. George B. Bacon, of Orange, New Jersey, for the history of Women's Suffrage in that State. I do not propose to continue this discussion, but to abide the criticisms laid upon me with what of patience I am able. |