Sections 1 "Frailty, thy name is WOMAN." 2 Sages and lawgivers have bent their whole nature to the search for truth, and thought… 3 Such marks have been made by the footsteps of man (still, alas! 4 Could we indeed say what we want, could we give a description of the child that is lost, he… 5 Another attempt we will give, by an obscure observer of our own day and country, to draw… 6 Meanwhile, not a few believe, and men themselves have expressed the opinion, that the time… 7 Here, as elsewhere, the gain of creation consists always in the growth of individual minds,… 8 We sicken no less at the pomp than the strife of words. 9 "Is it not enough," 10 I open the "Deutsche Schnellpost" 11 We will not speak of the innumerable instances in which profligate and idle men live upon… 12 But to return to the historical progress of this matter. 13 As to the possibility of her filling with grace and dignity any such position, we should… 14 Under these circumstances, without attaching importance, in themselves, to the changes… 15 Thus this child was early led to feel herself a child of the spirit. 16 "Once I thought that men would help to forward this state of things more than I do now. 17 "And yet," 18 The sexes should not only correspond to and appreciate, but prophesy to one another. 19 It is a fact worthy of remark, that all these revolutions in favor of liberty have produced… 20 The severe nation which taught that the happiness of the race was forfeited through the… 21 The Man habitually most narrow towards Woman will be flushed, as by the worst assault on… 22 "O that those lips had language! 23 Perhaps in Rome the neglect of Woman was a reaction on the manners of Etruria, where the… 24 "The part alone of gross maternal flame Fire shall devour; while that from me he drew Shall… 25 Coming nearer our own time, we find religion and poetry no less true in their revelations. 26 Germany did hot need to learn a high view of Woman; it was inborn in that race. 27 And there she waited, and the grapes ripened, and were gathered into the vintage, and he… 28 "Better a thousand women should perish than one man cease to see the light." 29 It is not the transient breath of poetic incense that women want; each can receive that from… 30 The reigns of Elizabeth of England and Isabella of Castile foreboded this era. 31 The influence of Elizabeth on literature was real, though, by sympathy with its finer… 32 "Were not our souls immortal made, Our equal loves can make them such." 33 In these minds the thought, which gleams through all the legends of chivalry, shines in… 34 Centuries have passed since, but civilized Europe is still in a transition state about… 35 Where this thought of equality begins to diffuse itself, it is shown in four ways. 36 Madame Roland is the fairest specimen we yet have of her class; as clear to discern her aim,… 37 Mary Wolstonecraft, like Madame Dudevant (commonly known as George Sand) in our day, was a… 38 Still the mind of the age struggles confusedly with these problems, better discerning as yet… 39 These are all instances of marriage as intellectual companionship. 40 The fourth and highest grade of marriage union is the religious, which may be expressed as… 41 Compare with this refined specimen of a religiously civilized life the following imperfect… 42 With like pleasure we survey the pairs wedded on the eve of missionary effort They, indeed,… 43 "'O Abradatus! 44 "Cyrus calling to some of his servants, 'Tell me, said he, 'has any one seen Abradatus? 45 "As soon as he saw the woman sitting on the ground, and the dead body there lying, he shed… 46 "Cyrus, as soon as he was informed of what the woman had done, being struck with it, went to… 47 * * * * * In the Economics, the manner in which the husband gives counsel to his young wife… 48 The shining names of famous women have cast light upon the path of the sex, and many… 49 Yet even this acknowledgment, rather conquered by Woman than proffered by Man, has been… 50 A position which so constantly admonishes, may be of inestimable benefit. 51 See a common woman at forty; scarcely has she the remains of beauty, of any soft poetic… 52 Even among the North American Indians, a race of men as completely engaged in mere… 53 The electrical, the magnetic element in Woman has not been fairly brought out at any period. 54 The worldling has his sneer at this as at the services of religion. 55 The royal Agamemnon could see the beauty of Cassandra; he was not afraid of her prophetic gifts. 56 It is moving, while amusing, to read of the Scottish peasant measuring the print left by the… 57 In this country is venerated, wherever seen, the character which Goethe spoke of as an… 58 His memory, every way dear and reverend, is, by many, especially cherished for this… 59 A writer in the New York Pathfinder, in two articles headed "Femality," 60 Man partakes of the feminine in the Apollo, Woman of the masculine as Minerva. 61 Proclus teaches that every life has, in its sphere, a totality or wholeness of the animating… 62 Men, as at present instructed, will not help this work, because they also are under the… 63 Among the throng of symptoms which denote the present tendency to a crisis in the life of… 64 As apostle of the new order, of the social fabric that is to rise from love, and supersede… 65 Goethe, proceeding on his own track, elevating the human being, in the most imperfect states… 66 But it is to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Wandering Years that I would especially… 67 In the Macaria, bound with the heavenly bodies in fixed revolutions, the centre of all… 68 * * * * * Many women have observed that the time drew nigh for a better care of the sex, and… 69 O men! 70 See, now, not the mass of the people, for we all know that it is a proverb and a bitter jest… 71 Yes! 72 The temple round Spread green the pleasant ground; The fair colonnade Be of pure marble… 73 I must here add that I do not believe there ever was put upon record more depravation of… 74 "Steep the soul In one pure love, and it will lost thee long." 75 "I have been taught, as I have said, through the course of my life, to love and to revere… 76 Will a woman who loves flattery or an aimless excitement, who wastes the flower of her mind… 77 Now I ask you, my sisters, if the women at the fashionable house be not answerable for those… 78 I must in this place mention, with respect and gratitude, the conduct of Mrs. 79 This seems to us hard. 80 Among ourselves, the exhibition of such a repugnance from a woman who had been given in… 81 On this subject, let every woman, who has once begun to think, examine herself; see whether… 82 When men call upon women to redeem them, they mean such maidens. 83 * * * * * Returning from the future to the present, let us see what forms Iduna takes, as… 84 The lot of Woman is sad. 85 Similar sadness at the birth of a daughter I have heard mothers express not unfrequently. 86 Similar observations have been made by those who have seen the women at Irish wakes, or the… 87 A poor woman, who had passed through the lowest grades of ignominy, seemed to think she had… 88 Ah! 89 It will not so much injure your modesty to have your name, by the unthinking, coupled with… 90 There cannot be a doubt that, if these two developments were in perfect harmony, they would… 91 Wherever religion (I mean the thirst for truth and good, not the love of sect and dogma) had… 92 But, were this freedom to come suddenly, I have no fear of the consequences. 93 I have no doubt, however, that a large proportion of women would give themselves to the same… 94 And will not she soon appear?—the woman who shall vindicate their birthright for all women;…
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