The English Woman: Studies in Her Psychic EvolutionSmith, Elder, & Company, 1909 - 337 Seiten |
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... the advance of Natural Science gave man a more rational conception of himself . Linnæus classified organ- isms according to their external resemblances . Cuvier re - classified according to organic similarity . This was THE ENGLISH WOMAN.
... the advance of Natural Science gave man a more rational conception of himself . Linnæus classified organ- isms according to their external resemblances . Cuvier re - classified according to organic similarity . This was THE ENGLISH WOMAN.
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... gave birth to them . Conse- quently these feelings must be considered absolutely hurt- ful and pernicious , while the opposite feelings , compassion , benevolence , love , & c . , must be esteemed absolutely good and progressive . This ...
... gave birth to them . Conse- quently these feelings must be considered absolutely hurt- ful and pernicious , while the opposite feelings , compassion , benevolence , love , & c . , must be esteemed absolutely good and progressive . This ...
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... gave rise to them , and they , in their turn , are transformed by the psychic activities which they set in motion . If surrounding circumstances could be in harmony with the conditions necessary to the integral evolution of each Ego ...
... gave rise to them , and they , in their turn , are transformed by the psychic activities which they set in motion . If surrounding circumstances could be in harmony with the conditions necessary to the integral evolution of each Ego ...
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... gave men a little more independence , it left women in the same inferior position as before . Further , it specially favoured the middle class the bourgeoisie . Yet in spite of these limitations the changes which had taken place in the ...
... gave men a little more independence , it left women in the same inferior position as before . Further , it specially favoured the middle class the bourgeoisie . Yet in spite of these limitations the changes which had taken place in the ...
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... gave rise to the ideal of social man , ' nor the means employed to put them into practice . We can merely sketch the new elements which were elaborated by industrial evolution and which prepared the ground for the evolution of woman ...
... gave rise to the ideal of social man , ' nor the means employed to put them into practice . We can merely sketch the new elements which were elaborated by industrial evolution and which prepared the ground for the evolution of woman ...
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Anglican Anglo-Saxon Autobiography beauty became become belong boys century character Christian Church College conception Corn Law daughter duties emotions England English women environment existence father feelings female Florence Nightingale Frances Power Cobbe friends George Eliot girls give Government Hampstead happiness Harriet Martineau Herbert Spencer human husband ideal ideas important impression independent individual influence inner intellectual interesting Jane Austen John Stuart Mill large number liberal living London Lord marriage married women Mary Mary Carpenter Mary Wollstonecraft mental middle classes mind Miss Cobbe moral mother nature object organisation passion period play political position present day Primrose League progress psychic activities psychic evolution psychic faculties reform relations religion religious Science scientific Shakespeare sister social society soul struggle Suffrage thought tion University wife woman movement Women's Suffrage young ladies
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 103 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Seite 55 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King...
Seite 102 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband...
Seite 102 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Seite 77 - The uneasiness, reduced to its simplest terms, is a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand. 2. The solution is a sense that we are saved from the wrongness by making proper connection with the higher powers.
Seite 157 - If I know myself, Harriet, mine is an active, busy mind, with a great many independent resources and I do not perceive why I should be more in want of employment at forty or fifty than one-and-twenty. Woman's usual occupations of eye and hand and mind will be as open to me then as they are now or with no important variation. If I draw less, I shall read more. If I give up music, I shall take to carpet-work.
Seite 163 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.
Seite 63 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Seite 183 - Austen was in her grave ; and thus my first studies in philosophy were carried on with great care and reserve. I was at the work table regularly after breakfast, — making my own clothes, or the shirts of the household, or about some fancy work : I went out walking with the rest, — before dinner in winter, and after tea in summer : and if ever I shut myself into my own room for an hour of solitude, I knew it was at the risk of being sent for to join the sewing-circle, or to read aloud, — I being...
Seite 153 - I was enclosed in stiff stays with a steel busk in front, while, above my frock, bands drew my shoulders back till the shoulder-blades met. Then a steel rod, with a semi-circle which went under the chin, was clasped to the steel busk in my stays. In this constrained state I, and most of the younger girls, had to prepare our lessons.