The Unmarried Woman Volume 285, (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...involves a high and helpful love--will have to be put aside. If a woman is a better woman because of her education, she must be educated, whether her chances for marriage are thereby imperilled or not. If she is a better woman without the education than with it, then she should not have it, even if her chances of independence and happiness in a single life are thereby destroyed. It is almost a truism that intellectual education alone does not improve either men or women. As Emerson suggests, it is better that a bad man should have only his hands to help him carry out his evil designs, than that he should be furnished with modern machinery. It has been said of Napoleon that he was not a worse man than many others, but that his powerful intellect multiplied the ill his low motives wrought. Looking at it in this light, education ought to make both men and women better. If it does not, it is because the moral development is sacrificed to the intellectual. Perhaps this is not often the case; the head and heart usually develop together. But there is a danger in an intellectual life which, though it does not really affect women more than men, seems to do so on the surface. I mean that an intellectual life is sometimes allowed to become all-absorbing, and make us indifferent to the claims of others, --especially to the petty claims which are so exhausting and annoying. Now, men have shirked these small claims for many centuries, on the plea that they could not meet them without neglecting more important duties; and their plea must be allowed in part, because the difference in the physical powers of men and women does make a natural division of duties, by which the smaller ones must usually fall to women, however little we may like to own it. The..

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ...involves a high and helpful love--will have to be put aside. If a woman is a better woman because of her education, she must be educated, whether her chances for marriage are thereby imperilled or not. If she is a better woman without the education than with it, then she should not have it, even if her chances of independence and happiness in a single life are thereby destroyed. It is almost a truism that intellectual education alone does not improve either men or women. As Emerson suggests, it is better that a bad man should have only his hands to help him carry out his evil designs, than that he should be furnished with modern machinery. It has been said of Napoleon that he was not a worse man than many others, but that his powerful intellect multiplied the ill his low motives wrought. Looking at it in this light, education ought to make both men and women better. If it does not, it is because the moral development is sacrificed to the intellectual. Perhaps this is not often the case; the head and heart usually develop together. But there is a danger in an intellectual life which, though it does not really affect women more than men, seems to do so on the surface. I mean that an intellectual life is sometimes allowed to become all-absorbing, and make us indifferent to the claims of others, --especially to the petty claims which are so exhausting and annoying. Now, men have shirked these small claims for many centuries, on the plea that they could not meet them without neglecting more important duties; and their plea must be allowed in part, because the difference in the physical powers of men and women does make a natural division of duties, by which the smaller ones must usually fall to women, however little we may like to own it. The..

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

Release date

April 2013

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April 2013

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

102

ISBN-13

978-1-153-39892-3

Barcode

9781153398923

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1-153-39892-3



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