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... and , having passed beyond philo- sophy , science , emotion , and experience , bathe in the love between the fixed stars and comets rushing from the spaces beyond . They can take dim legends and embroider them with rich details . 78.
... and , having passed beyond philo- sophy , science , emotion , and experience , bathe in the love between the fixed stars and comets rushing from the spaces beyond . They can take dim legends and embroider them with rich details . 78.
Page 80
... philo- sophic , scientific , sensual , or physical , and it is then that the soul may be said to have attained the regenerate state which makes for the un- natural beauty we call perfection of culture . The imaginative woman may reach ...
... philo- sophic , scientific , sensual , or physical , and it is then that the soul may be said to have attained the regenerate state which makes for the un- natural beauty we call perfection of culture . The imaginative woman may reach ...
Page 85
... Those who are suffering from the home want to do away with it . With philo- sophic calm I can suggest improvements and ways of escape that would make it bearable , but would not destroy it . As a matter of 85 Experiments.
... Those who are suffering from the home want to do away with it . With philo- sophic calm I can suggest improvements and ways of escape that would make it bearable , but would not destroy it . As a matter of 85 Experiments.
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... philo- sophic , scientific , sensual , or physical , and it is then that the soul may be said to have attained the regenerate state which makes for the un- natural beauty we call perfection of culture . The imaginative woman may reach ...
... philo- sophic , scientific , sensual , or physical , and it is then that the soul may be said to have attained the regenerate state which makes for the un- natural beauty we call perfection of culture . The imaginative woman may reach ...
Page 88
... Those who are suffering from the home want to do away with it . With philo- sophic calm I can suggest improvements and ways of escape that would make it bearable , but would not destroy it . As a matter of 85 Experiments.
... Those who are suffering from the home want to do away with it . With philo- sophic calm I can suggest improvements and ways of escape that would make it bearable , but would not destroy it . As a matter of 85 Experiments.
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Page 88 - Farr as one of the deftest that has been wielded in the style of to-day. She has written the cleverest and the most cynical sensation story of the season.
Page 88 - Full of bright paradox, and paradox which is no mere topsy-turvy play upon words, but the product of serious thinking upon life. One of the cleverest of recent novels.' — Star. * It is full of epigrammatic effects, and it has a certain thread of pathos calculated to win our sympathy.
Page 31 - This is, of course, not true of young lovers. Every first love is born free of tradition ; indeed, not only is first love innocent and valiant, but it sweeps aside all the wise laws it has been taught, and burns away experience in its own light. The revelation is so extraordinary, so unlike anything told by...
Page 7 - ... Indian patriarchy was harmful, while to traditional Hindu males, it was a godsend. No wonder, therefore, that the white goddess found her place in Indian society and that a suburb of Madras is named Besant Nagar. 9 S FROM LONDON'S WEST END TO JAFFNA Florence Fair as George Bernard Shaws "New Woman" This is to be the Woman's Century.
Page 63 - I do not think that we shall ever get mankind to carry out the eugenic ideal of careful breeding, but I do think we might come to a time when the natural instinct of a woman for the fit father of her child will be a very important factor in the arrangements made for .the existence and benefit of future generations.
Page 2 - Another fire has come into the harp, Fire from beyond the world, and wakens it : It has begun to cry out to the eagles ! WB YEATS, Second version of " Shadowy Waters
Page 8 - Scriptures. The Christian religion brought us that curse cowering behind its gospel of glad tidings ; and it is most remarkable to trace the way in which the Jews' religion crept into Europe under the cloak of Christianity.
Page 55 - Passion served up with cold sauce as in the Shaw-Barker school of sex revolts them.
Page 27 - It would make love marriages possible. It is almost certain that a love marriage on the woman's side is one of the most important elements for good in the production of a fine race.
Page 80 - Weiningen's book they will find, set out at length, the ingenious theory that virile men and feminine women are the rarest creatures on earth, and that the great majority of us are made up of various proportions of the two sexes.