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Page 17 - ... short" for all fundamental questions of life, future as well as present, and will be unable to descend into any of the depths. On the other hand, a man who has depth of spirit as well as of desires, and has also the depth of benevolence which is capable of severity and harshness, and easily confounded with them, can only think of woman as Orientals do: he must conceive of her as a possession, as...
Page 199 - ... generalizations on these data ; but I think it well worth the time for any one who does get the opportunity not to overlook these facts. I dissected a number of the male dogs that died from the rabies, but I never could detect any of the organs diseased except the penis, testicles, and sometimes the kidneys. Why this should be the case I am at a loss to say. There is one other theory that may throw some light on the subject, viz, the constant interbreeding of the dogs. I have known of instances...
Page 56 - Westermarck has defined it as "a more or less durable connection between male and female, lasting beyond the mere act of propagation till after the birth of the offspring.
Page 268 - It is a misfortune of the woman's movement that it has succeeded in securing political rights for women at the very period when political rights are worth less than they have been at any time since the eighteenth century. Parliamentary government is breaking down in Europe, and the guarantees of individual rights which it supported are disappearing with it. Republicanism in this country has not yet broken down, but public confidence in it has never been so low, and it seems certainly on the way to...
Page 270 - ... was, for all women's unique disadvantages, a part of the larger social question. She also saw, as few social feminists did, that a little patching up here and there was not enough to make the system workable, much less admirable. The United States, she declared, was engaged in a vast experiment ... to prove that human beings can live a generally satisfactory life without the exercise of the reflective intellect, without ideas, without ideals, and in a proper use of the word without emotions,...
Page 69 - Not only is the wage-earner thus obliged to content himself with a small share of what his labour produces; he is forced to pay out of that share further tribute to monopoly in most of the things he buys. . . . Such disadvantages tend not only to keep wages near the subsistence-level, but to keep opinions orthodox — or if not orthodox, unexpressed. For the wage-earner gets his living on sufferance: while he continues to please his employer he may earn a living, however inadequate, for himself and...
Page 263 - It is impossible for a sex or a class to have economic freedom until everybody has it, and until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.
Page 14 - Were our State a pure democracy, in which all its inhabitants should meet together to transact all their business, there would yet be excluded from their deliberations, i, infants, until arrived at years of discretion. 2. Women, who, to prevent depravation of morals and ambiguity of issue, could not mix promiscuously in the public meetings of men. 3. Slaves, from whom the unfortunate state of things with us takes away the rights of will and of property.
Page 268 - State will leave them subject, like the negro, to an exploitation enhanced by surviving prejudices against them. The most that can be expected of the removal of discriminations subjecting one class to another within the exploiting State, is that it will free the subject class from dual control — control by the favoured class and by the monopolist of economic opportunity. Even this degree of emancipation is worth a good deal; and therefore one is bound to regret that it has no guarantee of permanence...
Page 61 - Violation of the sexual monopoly that marriage implies; prénuptial unchastity on the part of the woman; impotence; cruelty; desertion; failure of support; insanity; all of these or some of them are the grounds generally recognized where divorce is allowed at all. This is to say that society demands a specific grievance of one party against the other, a grievance having physical or economic consequences, as a prerequisite to freedom from the marriage-bond. The fact that marriage may be a failure...