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May 4, 2018 - August 25, 2019
He gave woman a peculiar nature and set her in the home to be the presiding spirit there. Her powers are represented by gentleness, sympathy, purity, devotion to principle, and love.” The same unnatural impulses that drove certain women to sensational trials like those of Mrs. Gunness and Harry Thaw—killer of famed architect Stanford White—were responsible, he claimed, for the “multitudinous divorce proceedings” that were destroying the moral fabric of the nation.[6]
