Sections 1 In that clamour which has arisen in the modern world, where now this, and then that, is… 2 Then again a change came. 3 And the burgher’s wife, asked why she did not go to labour in her husband’s workshop, or… 4 Such would have been our answer in Europe in the ages of the past, if asked the question why… 5 Year by year, month by month, and almost hour by hour, this change is increasingly showing… 6 It is from these men, men who, viewed from the broad humanitarian standpoint, are often of… 7 In a million new directions forms of honoured and remunerative social labour are opening up… 8 Where one town-crier with stout legs and lusty lungs was once all-sufficient to spread the… 9 In our woman’s field of labour, matters have tended to shape themselves wholly otherwise! 10 Year by year, day by day, there is a silently working but determined tendency for the sphere… 11 But it is not only, nor even mainly, in the sphere of women’s material domestic labours that… 12 Time was, and still is, among almost all primitive and savage folk, when the first and… 13 Even under those conditions of civilisation which have existed in the centuries which divide… 14 The advance of science and the amelioration of the physical conditions of life tend rapidly… 15 Every mechanical invention which lessens the necessity for rough, untrained, muscular, human… 16 And the modern man who on his wedding-day should be greeted with the ancient good wish, that… 17 Thus, it has come to pass that vast numbers of us are, by modern social conditions,… 18 It is this great fact, so often and so completely overlooked, which lies as the propelling…
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