... 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 - Page 44by Frances Wright - 1829 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1829 - 624 pages
...the assertion that until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human 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.... | |
| 1829 - 842 pages
...the assertion that until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human 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... | |
| 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... | |
| William Randall Waterman - 1924 - 302 pages
...the only remedy : /Until women assume the place in society which good sense and ^ good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but...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... | |
| Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1977 - 324 pages
...in Indiana, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but...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... | |
| Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1978 - 344 pages
...Indiana newspaper, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but...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... | |
| Homer L. Calkin - Diplomatic and consular service, American - 1978 - 346 pages
...Indiana newspaper, wrote: Until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but...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... | |
| Susan S. Kissel - Social Science - 1993 - 196 pages
...marriage" ("Free Inquiry" 31-32; 30). As long as the two sexes continue unequal, Frances Wright said, "human improvement must advance but feebly. It is...advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance" ("Free Inquiry" 24). Following the philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft (whom she admired), of the long-standing... | |
| 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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