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Excerpt from Modern Woman and How to Manage Her
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 in?ated 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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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 in?ated 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.
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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Author(s) - Walter M. Gallichan
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ISBN - 9780265281000
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 149
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