The Intellectual Severance of Men and WomenT. C. Newby, 1860 - 124 páginas |
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... Female prudery depreciates intellectual progress , and confounds purity with ignorance CHAPTER VI . · PAGE 1 - 7 15 - 23 35 Wild Oats 46 CHAPTER VII . The Education of Women - 63 CHAPTER VIII . Love - Capability of loving , stronger.
... Female prudery depreciates intellectual progress , and confounds purity with ignorance CHAPTER VI . · PAGE 1 - 7 15 - 23 35 Wild Oats 46 CHAPTER VII . The Education of Women - 63 CHAPTER VIII . Love - Capability of loving , stronger.
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... female beauty CHAPTER IX . Marriage - Causes of men's indifference to marriage -Ought men of genius to marry ? -Marriage unfavourable to intellectual progress - Results of marrying from interested motives - The marriage ceremony ...
... female beauty CHAPTER IX . Marriage - Causes of men's indifference to marriage -Ought men of genius to marry ? -Marriage unfavourable to intellectual progress - Results of marrying from interested motives - The marriage ceremony ...
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... that gulf which appears to open between the male and female mind ; which intel- lectual disunion I am now about to examine more in detail . CHAPTER II . EDUCATION OF MEN FAR SUPERIOR TO THAT 6 THE INTELLECTUAL SEVERANCE.
... that gulf which appears to open between the male and female mind ; which intel- lectual disunion I am now about to examine more in detail . CHAPTER II . EDUCATION OF MEN FAR SUPERIOR TO THAT 6 THE INTELLECTUAL SEVERANCE.
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... female relatives , I do not in reality reproach women : I simply reflect upon and call the attention of my readers to a faulty system of education which appears to aim at render- ing the mental capacity and intellectual pursuits of men ...
... female relatives , I do not in reality reproach women : I simply reflect upon and call the attention of my readers to a faulty system of education which appears to aim at render- ing the mental capacity and intellectual pursuits of men ...
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... female intellect in youth has been asserted by some to be incontestable evidence of the inferior mental capacity of women , since the mind comes to maturity so much earlier , in the same manner as the sapling grows quicker than the oak ...
... female intellect in youth has been asserted by some to be incontestable evidence of the inferior mental capacity of women , since the mind comes to maturity so much earlier , in the same manner as the sapling grows quicker than the oak ...
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Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The god of life, and poesy, and light — The sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the deity.
Página 110 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 39 - There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills(') The air around with beauty ; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality...
Página 116 - And called her good as fair — For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.
Página 116 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognize the Willis who has written so many mere "verses of society.
Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 75 - Men, some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men, tome to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Página 62 - The fact itself, of causing the existence of a human being, is one of the most responsible actions in the range of human life.
Página 7 - ... any conjectural difference of original conformation of mind. As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up...
Página 39 - But in his delicate form — a dream of Love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Long'd for a deathless lover from above, And madden'd in that vision — are exprest All that ideal beauty ever bless'd The mind with in its most unearthly mood, When each conception was a heavenly guest — A ray of immortality - and stood, Starlike, around, until they gathered to a god!