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Title: Autographs for freedom
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Griffiths, Julia, -1895 Rochester Ladies' Anti-slavery Society
Subjects: Slavery
Publisher: Auburn, Alden, Beardsley & Co. Rochester, Wanzer, Beardsley & Co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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Bedford, June 1853.
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f^e ^i)e of ^mh. A QUAIXT old writer describes- a class of personswho liave souls so very small that 500 of themcould dance at once upon the point of a cambricneedle. These wee people are often wrapped up ina lump of the very coarsest of human clay, ponder-ous enough to give them the semblance of full-grownmen and Vv^omen. A grain of mustard seed, buried inthe heart of a mammoth pumpkin, would be no com-parison to the little soul, sheathed in its full grownbody. The contrast in size would be insufl&cient toconvey an adequate impression ; and the tiny soul haslittle of the mustard seed spiciness. Yet if this mass of flesh is only wrapped up in awhite sJdrij even though it is not nearly thick enoughto conceal the grossness and coarseness of the veiledmaterial, the poor ^feeble folk within will fancy 42 . The Size of Souls. that he really belongs to the natural variety of aristo-cratic humanity. He has the good taste to refusecondescension sufficient to allow him to eat at table\\ith

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