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345 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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Homer D.C.L And .M. The P. For Homeric T...
Granted tlien , upon Mr . Gladstone's own skewing , that woman still has progressed furtherand , we with will this h venture oe will proceed hope that to submit she may to our progress readers p
some of the , more remarkable passages in this interesting section . b the The Grospel idea and and place their of woman full development have been slowl has constituted y and laboriousl the purest y elevated and
force most y . perfect For it protest : is not , alone that the against world merel has ever y physical seen , against , but also the against sovereignty merel of y been lodthe hihest
intellectual strength , that this protest has ged . To very g range seems of never intellectual to have ascended strength known but in among the or almost children every of Adam case , to woman have every
probable fallen somewhat both that short her of average it . , But is hi when gher Certainl , we and look that there to she is the also virtue attains s here , it in of seems her the
inferiority highest instances to man to . loftier Now it summits is nowhere . while written it y is in written Holy no Scri that proof pture God that is love Gro & : words is knowled which ge , or that to Gro set d is forth power love ; as the central essenceand all besides
as attributes . appear Woman then holds of Grodand finds her own , principal development in that which is most Grodlike . Thus , but , therefore social , when Christianity not ri
valry wroug as hi with h ht as out his the for function it woman made the of , not man world a , social but and an identity elevation human , life in in her a this own respect equality function also , reaching a a true - g
image of the Grodhead , . bined " Within influence the of pale the of Christian that civilization reliion which as paramount has grown and up of under what the may com be
her But called social it the would position Teutonic be hard raised manners to to discover a as point secondary even g perio hi , we gher d find of than history the in , the idea or poems of country woman of Homer of and the .
worldnot being Christian , in which any they stood so high as with the Grreeks of the , heroic age . * * * *
of " society A main is to criterion be found of in the the general view which condition it may of woman exhibit in of U the given great state inthat institution is and
happy elevated stitution appetite . b In of y the just proportion marri condition restraint age . as , of it In the woman is prop relaxed condition ortion is degraded , in as of accommodation woman and servile is honorable to ; human for purified where , free infirmity desire , and
is or the law , strength is its appropriate and only sanction , and the cause of the weaker fails , . Just as a strict and efficient most police for the is most interest important of the to the
unprotected c ' The general , so a position strict law of of womankind marriage is in the Homeric age is high woman on both . sides of the Archipelagobutas respects marriageits chiefest illarit is
; , , p , perceptibl the multitude y even of hi cases gher that among either the directl Grreeks than or incidentall among the y Troj come ans before . Among us in y
the Priam poems or , that there seems is nothing to , favor that polygamy at all . resembles _35 _Tor have the we Asiati any instance c household where of
to of a wife choose another , is divorced a man new during husband or taken his from lifetime away from . The them her froward husband do it upon Suitors , and the , then who plea made urge that Penelope the Ulysses wife among ,
must be deadand that there is no hope of his return : a plea not irrational , of if we presume which , that Hoiner the real has term assigned of his to absence it . The came ancient to even law half of the England number , years
the while equivalent husband it repudiated ' s death to death , the when itself princi broug p for le ht of the near divorce to certainty , recognised of exempting by a long the term presumption the of wife absence from of ,
difficult civil as penalty to corrupt in case Cl of yteinnestra her marriage : and . purpose his _JEg success isthus , again in inducing , finds her it extremel to marry y
Mm entailsas if a matter of course , the murder of her former husband . ,
345 Notices Of Books.
345 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/57/
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