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" ... human improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil ; if they advance not... "
Course of Popular Lectures as Delivered by Frances Wright: With Three ... - Page 44
by Frances Wright - 1829 - 239 pages
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The Lion [ed. by R. Carlile]., Volume 4

1829 - 842 pages
...slaves decide the destinies of their masters, more than masters those of the slave. Even as the laboring classes influence more directly the fortunes of a...improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we should circumscribe the power of one half of our race, ;'m! that half by far the most important and...
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Lion, Volume 4

1829 - 624 pages
...slaves decide the destinies of their masters, more than masters those of the slave. Even as the laboring classes influence more directly the fortunes of a...improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we should circumscribe the power of one half of our race, ml that half by far the most important and influential....
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 276

Early English newspapers - 1894 - 684 pages
...that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to men, human improvement must advance but feebly. It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one-half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not...
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Frances Wright

William Randall Waterman - 1924 - 302 pages
...schemes. General female education, equal to that received by the opposite sex, was the only remedy : /Until women assume the place in society which good...circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil ; if they...
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Women in American Foreign Affairs

Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1977 - 324 pages
...instance, in l829 Frances Wright, a joint editor with Robert Owen of a newspaper in Indiana, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good...that half by far the most important and influential. ... Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the...
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Women in the Department of State: Their Role in American Foreign ..., Volume 10

Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1978 - 344 pages
...For instance, in 1829 Frances Wright, a co-editor with Robert Owen of an Indiana newspaper, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good...that half by far the most important and influential. . . . Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the...
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Women in the Department of State: Their Role in American Foreign ..., Volume 10

Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1978 - 346 pages
...For instance, in 1829 Frances Wright, a co-editor with Robert Owen of an Indiana newspaper, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good...that half by far the most important and influential. . . . Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the...
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Timelines of American Women's History

Sue Heinemann - History - 1996 - 404 pages
...assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them," she declares, "human improvement must advance but feebly. It is...circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that by far the most important and influential." A crisis occurs in Andrew Jackson's cabinet when he appoints...
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