Civilized America
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217814331
Paperback|9780217814331
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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: CHAPTER II. THE WOMEN OF AMERICA. Progress of Female Influence?Scarcity of Monster-women?Right Appreciation of the Sex?Superiority of Women in America?Their Foibles in Manner and Dress?Precocity?Flirtations?Marriages?Independence of Children? Matchmaking unusual in America?American Women in Europe?Homesickness?Woman's Rights' Conventions. The important position occupied by the female sex in the actual state of civilization makes the relative deficiencies and merits of the women of America a subject worthy of serious inquiry. Whether it has been from their own exertions, or from the instinctive workings of the social system, of which they form everywhere so material a portion, women have acquired of late a place in the general scale, if not more prominent, assuredly more influential than at any anterior period of the world. Our queens are no longer the heroines of history, nor our wives and daughters the adventurers of romance. Mothers do not send their sons to battle, telling them to conquer or be borne back on their shields. Matrons plunge no daggers into their own bosoms, nor swallow red-hot coals for virtue's sake, nor do virgins drive nails into the heads of tyrants for that of country. The ferocity of patriotism is left to men. The coarser half of creation is not stimulated to duty by the excitement of unfeminine passions in the other. But the whole body of society has been at once refined and elevated in modern times by female influence, silently working under the surface of the moral world, like the warm springs which trickle beneath the earth, melting and crumbling into fertility the harshness of original formations. The assumption of power on the part of women has in all ages produced a reaction to their disadvantage. The homage paid to the boldness of t...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217814331 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217814336 |
| Weight | 1.03 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $24.49 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 316 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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