Limiting the liberty of each by the like liberty of all, excludes a wide range of improper actions, but does not exclude certain other improper ones.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.

Man needed one moral constitution to fit him for his original state ; he needs another to fit him for his present state; and he has been, is, and will long con…