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Letter from Susan B. Anthony to Isabella Beecher Hooker, January 6, 1873

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must go their own way to destruction.
 
must go their own way to destruction.
 
I(u) at least, cannot leave my life  
 
I(u) at least, cannot leave my life  
work to tray and set them(u) right - but
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work to try and set them(u) right - but

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Rochester Jan. 6. 1873 My Dear Mrs. Hooker

Do not, I beg you, allow your feelings to be wrought upon because of another's falseness to facts or theories - it is doubtless as much better to wait the natural crisis of a moral disease, as that of the physical (u) - & if there be any truth in your old orthodox theory - it is probably Gods purpose to give all these people their wayward(u) heads(u) until they shall have filled their own cups to the brim with his wrath(u) - all the parties connected with that fearful tragedy seem to have put their heads together to lie(u) through(u) the(u) whole(u) with a perfect(u) God(u) & Truth(u) defying(u) spirit(u) - & they must go their own way to destruction. I(u) at least, cannot leave my life work to try and set them(u) right - but