As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
Source: An Address to the Christian Women of America, Woman Suffrageand Women's Professions, 1871.
-- Catharine Esther Beecher, (Sep 6 1800-1878), US educator, author; She popularized and shaped a conservative ideological movement to both elevate and entrench woman's place in the domestic sphere of American culture.