The purpose of the oxymoron and paradox used in this excerpt is to describe what it feels like to love.
emphasize a point about love.
provide the definition of love.
entertain using visions of love

Rev. simon hosack] entered fully into the feeling of suffering and sorrow which took possession of me when i discovered that a girl weighed less in the scale of being than a boy, and he praised my determination to prove the contrary. which best describes society’s view of boys’ and girls’ abilities during the period in which elizabeth cady stanton lived?