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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THREE WOMEN AS CHARMERS Women constitute a spectacle, not only for man, but for mankind. When Jack takes Jill out for a walk in some public promenade he knows just as well as she knows that part of her function is to show herself, to contribute to the great spectacle of her sex. He may grumble at the cost of her clothes; he may make irrational and unfair remarks concerning the futility of mere appearances; he will almost certainly get irritable because in her anxiety about appearances she has kept him waiting at the start; nevertheless he would be discontented if she, as his own particular Jill, failed worthily to play her part in the spectacle. The spectacle is a delight to the eye. It may, and probably does, stimulate thoughts which lead to actions that have their influence upon the future of the race; but it is primarily the eye's affair. Now there was a strange period in the history of the northern peoples when the delights of the eye were regarded with suspicion, even with disapprobation, and when it seemed to be considered that the eye was a culprit among our sensory organs and ought to be deprived of satisfaction; the other organs were entitled to their appetites, but not the eye, the theory being that "appearances" were in themselves wicked, and if they could not be suppressed should at any rate be reduced to a minimum. This period has passed away by reason of its unnatural perversity, and few regret it. The claims of the eye are now once more fully recognised. Women are the supreme purveyors to the eye by virtue of their superior grace, beauty, and interest in line and colour; also by virtue of a fundamental quality, not to be analysed, from which these qualities perhaps spring. I do not mean that men have no spectacular value, no grace, ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458838216 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458838218 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $16.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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