SOURCE; "Susan B. Anthony," in Evangels of Reform, Round Table Press, Inc., 1934, pp. 132-55.

In the following essay, Smith traces the history of Anthony's interest in women's rights.

In the vast company of agitators who preached their social and political Utopias in the America of the last half of the nineteenth century it is difficult to find one who was entirely free from some mental abberation or psychological abnormality or whose passion for reform was not merely another expression of that deep-grained Puritanism that has been the most salient feature of the American character. Susan Brownell Anthony, woman's suffrage advocate, was a happy exception. Miss Anthony possessed the fierce determination and conviction common to the reforming species but she had also a large amount of common sense and humour and a normal human outlook on life that makes her stand out as a unique figure among American reformers...