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Writings Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (7 Volumes) Leather Bound (The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson)
Writings Of Thomas Wentworth Higginson Leather Bound - 7 Volumes - The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: — fickle, unsteady, foolish, — to the nobler conception of womanhood which the poet Wordsworth found fulfilled in his own household : — " A being breathing th... more »oughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death ; The roam firm, the temperate will; Endurance, fanlight, strength and skill'; A perfect woman, nobly planned To warn, to comfort, to command, And yet a spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light." Allures When a certain legislature had Brighter " Schoo1 Suffrage " under consider- Worlds, ation, the other day, the suggestion And.leads was made by one of the pithiest and THE WAV quaintest of the speakers, that men were always better for the society of women, and therefore ought to vote in their company. "If all of us," he said, "would stay away from all places where we cannot take our wives and daughters with us, we should keep better company than we now do." This expresses a feeling which grows more and more common among the better class of men, and which is the key to much progress in the condition of women. There can be no doubt that the increased association of the sexes in society, in school, in literature, tends to purify these several spheres of action. Yet, when we come to philosophizeon this, there occur some perplexities on the way. For instance, the exclusion of woman from all these spheres was in ancient Greece almost complete; yet the leading Greek poets, as Homer and the tragedians, are exceedingly chaste in tone, and in this respect beyond most of the great poets of modern nations. Again, no European nation has quite so far sequestered and subordinated women as has Spain ; and yet the whole tone of Spanish literature is conspicuously grave and decorous. This plainly indicates that race has much to do with the matter, and that the...« less