The Awakening of WomenG. Redway, 1899 - 323 pages |
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... brains - Relative size - Precocity of the female brain - Intelligence of primitive women - Idiocy— Less insanity among women - Woman's recuperative powers -Longevity of women Sense of sight - Colour tests— Psychic phenomena — Hearing ...
... brains - Relative size - Precocity of the female brain - Intelligence of primitive women - Idiocy— Less insanity among women - Woman's recuperative powers -Longevity of women Sense of sight - Colour tests— Psychic phenomena — Hearing ...
Page ix
... Brain development - Knowledge of physiology necessary - The training of the natural appetites -False modesty — The body the temple of God - The foun- dations of character - The home influence - Great men's mothers - Reverence for ...
... Brain development - Knowledge of physiology necessary - The training of the natural appetites -False modesty — The body the temple of God - The foun- dations of character - The home influence - Great men's mothers - Reverence for ...
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... brain , we find that , when fully developed by education , the female brain is , in proportion , equal in size and weight to man's , and in some cases is above that of the average man . As this is a much disputed point , I will here ...
... brain , we find that , when fully developed by education , the female brain is , in proportion , equal in size and weight to man's , and in some cases is above that of the average man . As this is a much disputed point , I will here ...
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... brains and men's : " Not only the positive size of the brain , but also its relative size , i.e. , its size in relation to the body , must be considered . Were this not the case , then man , for example , would stand below the elephant ...
... brains and men's : " Not only the positive size of the brain , but also its relative size , i.e. , its size in relation to the body , must be considered . Were this not the case , then man , for example , would stand below the elephant ...
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... brain is smaller proportionally than the male . " -Lancet , 1887 . " When the size of a woman's brain is considered in com- parison with the weight of her body , it is evident that a woman has more brain per pound than a man ; and if ...
... brain is smaller proportionally than the male . " -Lancet , 1887 . " When the size of a woman's brain is considered in com- parison with the weight of her body , it is evident that a woman has more brain per pound than a man ; and if ...
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advancement ages Alfred Russel Wallace American Anglo-Saxon animal ANNA BLACKWELL bear beauty body brain character child Christian civilisation classes condition degradation disease divine duties earthly EDWARD BELLAMY equal ethical evil evolution Evolution of Sex fact factor faith female feminine FRANCES SWINEY Frank Hamilton Cushing future girls greater greatest hand Havelock Ellis heart higher higher evolution highest holy human race husband ideal ignorance individual industrial influence instincts intellectual justice knowledge labour liberty living MABEL COLLINS male man's mankind marriage masculine material Max Nordau ment mental mind Miss Frances monogamy moral mother motherhood nation nature noble Note organisation organism passions physical political polygamy position possess primitive progress pure purer purity realise recognised reform regard religion remarks sexual sisters social soul spiritual sublime suffering supreme things tion true truth various vice virtues whole wife woman womanhood women
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Page 82 - Produce ! Produce ! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product, produce it, in God's name ! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee : out with it, then. Up, up ! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might. Work while it is called Today ; for the Night cometh, wherein no man can work.
Page 54 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Page 108 - The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving, delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul, Than when she liv'd indeed...
Page 91 - But without a parable spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all things to his disciples.
Page 129 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Page 13 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
Page 153 - I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.
Page 198 - I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
Page 86 - everywhere Two heads in council, two beside the hearth, Two in the tangled business of the world, Two in the liberal offices of life, Two plummets dropt for one to sound the abyss Of science, and the secrets of the mind: Musician, painter, sculptor, critic, more : And everywhere the broad and bounteous Earth Should bear a double growth of those rare souls, Poets, whose thoughts enrich the blood of the world.
Page 52 - Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine ? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.