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- From: deny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Edward)
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:43:10 GMT
apes in Benares, who, in the
consciousness of their holiness and invulnerability, deem that anything
and everything is permitted to them.
Woman in the west, especially "the lady," finds herself in a false
position. For woman, rightly termed by the ancients the sexus sequior,
is in no wise suited to be the object of our honour and veneration, to
carry her head higher than the man or even to have equal rights with
him. The consequences of this false position we sufficiently see. It
would be very desirable therefore that even in Europe this number two of
the human race should be again referred to her natural place, and that a
term should be put to the lady-nonsense, at which not only all Asia
laughs, but at which Greece and Rome would also have laughed. The
consequence of this in a social, civil, and political connection, would
be inconceivably advantageous. The Salic Law as a superfluous truism,
ought not to at all necessary. The essentially European "lady" is a
being which ought not to exist at all; but there ought to housewives,
and girls who hope to become so, and who are therefore educated, not to
arrogance, but to domesticity and subordination. Precisely because there
are ladies in Europe, the women of the lower classes, that is, the great
majority of the sex, are much more unhappy than in the East. Even Lord
Byron says: "Thought of the state of women under the ancient Greeks -
convenient enough. Present state, a remnant of the barbarism of the
chivalry of the feudal ages - artificial and unnatural. They ought to
mind home, and be well fed and clothed, but not mixed in society. Well
educated, too, in religion, but to read neither poetry nor politics,
nothing but books of piety and cookery. Music, drawing, dancing, also a
little gardening and ploughing now and then. I have seen them mending
the roads in Epirus with good success. Why not, as well as haymaking and
milking?"
The European marriage laws treat the woman a
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