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activity age of enlightenment amaternal attained beautiful become century character child comrade contrary created creative culture daugh daughter demands desire devotion division of labour duties earlier egoism Ellen Key emancipation emphasised equality erotic especially exercise expression father feeling feminine feminism feminists field fifty years ago Fredrika Bremer freedom G. P. Putnam's Sons genius give hand happiness harmony Havelock Ellis higher husband ideal ideas increasing individual influence instinct intellectual live man's mankind marriage married masculine maternity ment modern woman mother motherhood motherliness nature organisation parents passion personality point of view political present psychic race RADCLIFFE COLLEGE Rahel Varnhagen result rich Romanticism sacrifice sexual significant social society soul sphere spiritual strength struggle suffering sympathy task tion to-day universal human vocation wife wish woman move woman movement woman question womanliness women's rights young girls youth
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Page iii - Es gibt kein Vergangenes, das man zurücksehnen dürfte, es gibt nur ein ewig Neues, das sich aus den erweiterten Elementen des Vergangenen gestaltet, und die echte Sehnsucht muß stets produktiv sein, ein neues Besseres erschaffen.
Page 177 - The maternal as opposed to the amaternal theory is this: that a woman's life is lived most intensively and most extensively, most individually and most socially; she is for her own part most free, and for others most fruitful, most egoistic and most altruistic, most receptive and most generous, in and with the physical and psychic exercise of the function oj maternity , because of the conscious desire, by means of this Junction, to uplift the life of the race as well as her own life.
Page 150 - In fact, marriage may be subsumed under its ethical aspect as a physio-spiritual communion between man and woman for the purpose of procreation. Marriage then as understood in the modern spirit is the idea of race production and the complete union of personalities.
Page iii - There is no past that we need long to return to, there is only the eternally new which is formed out of enlarged elements of the past; and our genuine longing must always be productive, for a new and better creation.
Page 97 - To-day young girls live to apply the principle of the woman movement — individualism.
Page 177 - ... that a woman's life is lived most intensively and most extensively, most individually and most socially, she is for her own part most free, and for others most fruitful, most egoistic and most altruistic, most receptive and most generous, in and with the physical and psychical exercise of the function of maternity because of the conscious desire by means of this function to uplift the life of the race as well as her own life.