The Awakening of WomenG. Redway, 1899 - 323 pages |
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Frances Swiney. What a strange thing is man , and what a stranger 66 Is woman ! " -BYRON . OF WOMEN OR WOMAN'S PART IN EVOLUTION BY FRANCES SWINEY.
Frances Swiney. What a strange thing is man , and what a stranger 66 Is woman ! " -BYRON . OF WOMEN OR WOMAN'S PART IN EVOLUTION BY FRANCES SWINEY.
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Frances Swiney. OF WOMEN OR WOMAN'S PART IN EVOLUTION BY FRANCES SWINEY SWIN " Be not ashamed , women , your privilege encloses the rest , and is the exist of the rest . " You are the gates of the body , and you are the gates of the soul ...
Frances Swiney. OF WOMEN OR WOMAN'S PART IN EVOLUTION BY FRANCES SWINEY SWIN " Be not ashamed , women , your privilege encloses the rest , and is the exist of the rest . " You are the gates of the body , and you are the gates of the soul ...
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... evolution of sex- ' -The differentiation of the sexes - Nature's care of the female organism — Woman's higher development - The pelvis - Nutrition determines sex -Professor Schenk's theory - Monstrosities - Eight ribs- Weight of jaws ...
... evolution of sex- ' -The differentiation of the sexes - Nature's care of the female organism — Woman's higher development - The pelvis - Nutrition determines sex -Professor Schenk's theory - Monstrosities - Eight ribs- Weight of jaws ...
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... The consequence of woman's fall - Woman , the mainspring of racial health — Moral evolu- tion - Man's inconsistencies regarding woman - The present PAGE · 53 evolution of the race Woman's distinctive part- The dawn of viii CONTENTS.
... The consequence of woman's fall - Woman , the mainspring of racial health — Moral evolu- tion - Man's inconsistencies regarding woman - The present PAGE · 53 evolution of the race Woman's distinctive part- The dawn of viii CONTENTS.
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Frances Swiney. evolution of the race Woman's distinctive part- The dawn of the women's era - Man's dependence on woman- Marriage and intellectuality - The eventual triumph of individuality - The extinction of sex - The harmony of the ...
Frances Swiney. evolution of the race Woman's distinctive part- The dawn of the women's era - Man's dependence on woman- Marriage and intellectuality - The eventual triumph of individuality - The extinction of sex - The harmony of the ...
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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.