text:  Ill temper and rash opinions and crude notions are always mischievous; but it is not in politics alone that they are exhibited and the women most applauded for not _meddling_ with politics (an expression which as our author properly observes assumes the whole matter in dispute ) are generally those who adhere to the most obsolete doctrines with the greatest tenacity and pursue those who differ with them in opinion with the most unmitigated rancour