Sections 1 There remains a question, not of less importance than those already discussed, and which… 2 To which let me first answer, the advantage of having the most universal and pervading of… 3 Such people are little aware, when a boy is differently brought up, how early the notion of… 4 The example afforded, and the education given to the sentiments, by laying the foundation of… 5 The second benefit to be expected from giving to women the free use of their faculties, by… 6 This great accession to the intellectual power of the species, and to the amount of… 7 Besides the addition to the amount of individual talent available for the conduct of human… 8 From the combination of the two kinds of moral influence thus exercised by women, arose the… 9 The chivalrous ideal is the acme of the influence of women's sentiments on the moral… 10 At present the moral influence of women is no less real, but it is no longer of so marked… 11 Women have, however, some share of influence in giving the tone to public moralities since… 12 It sometimes happens that women who administer public charities—with that insight into… 13 It is often said that in the classes most exposed to temptation, a man's wife and children… 14 For, in the first place, there is always some sacrifice of personal interest required;… 15 She has sacrificed her whole life to it, and her husband will not sacrifice to it a whim, a… 16 There is another very injurious aspect in which the effect, not of women's disabilities… 17 It would of course be extreme folly to suppose that these differences of feeling and… 18 I have considered, thus far, the effects on the pleasures and benefits of the marriage union… 19 At the present time, the progress of civilization, and the turn of opinion against the rough… 20 Thus far, the benefits which it has appeared that the world would gain by ceasing to make… 21 He who would rightly appreciate the worth of personal independence as an element of… 22 Was it not like the physical effect of taking off a heavy weight, or releasing him from… 23 But it is not only through the sentiment of personal dignity, that the free direction and… 24 There are few of the administrative functions of government for which a person would not be… 25 But what we are now discussing is not the need which society has of the services of women in…
Start Learning Mill closes with the benefits of emancipation: marriage regulated by justice instead of power, twice the talent available to society, and a check on the arbitrary, character-forming effects of unearned male superiority on boys raised to believe themselves naturally superior.
The utilitarian case for emancipation Marriage as a moral education Doubling society's usable talent The corrupting effect of unearned superiority on men and boys Marriage as "the only actual bondage known to our law"
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