The International congress of women of 1899 (ed. by the countess of Aberdeen)., Volume 4

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Page 46 - Binds it, and makes all error : and, to KNOW, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 21 - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Page 126 - How defectively she performs these sacred duties is shown by the fact that nearly one-half of the human race die before they reach the age of five years.
Page 110 - I learnt that this was not the usual arrangement. I take it for granted that we are all agreed that gardening is a suitable profession for women, and that we need not therefore discuss this point, but may proceed at once to examine the question how the best preparation and training for the work can be given. In order to do this it will be necessary for us to consider for a little the nature of the work that is to be undertaken, and the kind of candidate that it is desirablet ot rain for it.
Page 3 - Nursing is an art ; and if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or cold marble compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's Spirit ? It is one of the fine arts ; I had almost said the finest of the fine arts.
Page 47 - ... can never be cancelled, introduces a distinctively feminine condition into the wondrous chemistry of the affections and sentiments, which inevitably gives rise to distinctive forms and combinations. A certain amount of psychological difference between man and woman necessarily arises out of the difference of sex, and instead of being destined to vanish before a complete development of woman's intellectual and moral nature, will be a permanent source of variety and beauty as long as the tender...
Page 37 - ... vocabulary required by the reporter of fires, murders, and the long list of crimes and casualties. This brings us again to the question, " What is requisite to meet these various demands ? " It has been expressed in a sentence by George W. Smalley, who has earned the right to be considered high authority. " There is no training, no acquisition, no form of knowledge or experience which is not useful to the beginner in journalism, and to the life-long practitioner.
Page 102 - Et des pres emailles les riches broderies, Et des riants coteaux les vertes draperies, Les arbres, les rochers, et les eaux et les fleurs, Ce sont la vos pinceaux, vos toiles, vos couleurs: La nature est a vous; et votre main feconde Dispose, pour cre'er, des ele'ments du monde.
Page 153 - Vorkuta camps that they could be counted on the fingers of one hand. The...
Page 38 - ... should ask herself if she is able to toil from eight to fifteen hours a day, seven days in the week ; for this may be required of her. Is she willing to take whatever assignment may be given ; to go wherever sent, to accomplish what she is delegated to do, at whatever risk or rebuff or inconvenience ; to brave all kinds of weather ; to give up the frivolities of dress that women love, and confine herself to a plain serviceable suit ; to renounce practically the pleasures of social life ; to put...

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