"Best" most nearly means: "genuine" (option C).
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- In lines 35-38, Stanton states that the society contains hardly any women in the "best sense" and clarifies that too that a lot of women are "reflections, varieties and delusion of the masculine gender".
- This way, Stanton is suggesting that there are only a few women who are actually 'best' or 'genuine', the ones who are not completely influenced or driven by men.
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