Modern Woman and How to Manage Her (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gallichan, Walter M.

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ISBN 10: 144004886X ISBN 13: 9781440048869

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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St. Augustine asked why women were born at all, and warned young men to beware of the Eve in every woman. St. Jerome described woman as the root of all evil; and Luther, although he swept away the preposterous doc trine that celibacy is one of the highest moral virtues, advocated the withholding of culture from women on the ground that no gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. Under a statute of Henry VIII. Women and others of low condition were forbidden to read the Scriptures.

I could fill this chapter with quotations from the Fathers, showing how deep was the distrust and the misunderstanding Of woman during the period when minstrels and poets sang inflated paeans to the beauty and purity of their mistresses. Many of these pious passages are, to say the least, written in unseemly language; they are all characterised by a spirit of contempt or disgust for women.

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There has been no period of human history when the sons of men have proved invulnerable to the charms and arts of the daughters of men. The poems of the most primitive singers proclaim the attraction and the grace of Woman, and in all ages poets have acclaimed love with ecstacy and passion. Among the Western nations Woman has been beatified, exalted, even deified. In the East she has stood as the type of ravishing beauty, as the voluptuous charmer of Man, and the reward for his valour or virtue.

Not only among the Eastern races has Woman been regarded as the greatest meed that Man can win. "A crowd of beautiful virgins," it is written in the Edda, "wait the heroes in the Hall of Odin, and fill their cups as fast as they empty them."

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 144004886X
• ISBN 13: 9781440048869
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152