The Advance of Woman from the Earliest Times to the PresentJ.B. Lippincott, 1912 - 333 pages |
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... male and female are performing the same functions in the same way . It is this ability to raise problems that marks the distinction between animal and human , this developing of the rational faculty . This faculty seems to have had ...
... male and female are performing the same functions in the same way . It is this ability to raise problems that marks the distinction between animal and human , this developing of the rational faculty . This faculty seems to have had ...
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... male as being primary in the organic scheme . The Genesaic order of creation , as inter- preted by Moses , is no longer tenable by those who accept the more rational and scientific , as well as supremely divine process , which merely ...
... male as being primary in the organic scheme . The Genesaic order of creation , as inter- preted by Moses , is no longer tenable by those who accept the more rational and scientific , as well as supremely divine process , which merely ...
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... male is much smaller than the female , and is devoted to one function only , namely , fertilisation . In the insect family with few exceptions , the differ- ence is very marked , the male frequently being ex- tremely insignificant as in ...
... male is much smaller than the female , and is devoted to one function only , namely , fertilisation . In the insect family with few exceptions , the differ- ence is very marked , the male frequently being ex- tremely insignificant as in ...
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... male to seek the female , as the latter , with the rarest exceptions , being much the less eager of the two , has to be sedulously courted . Among in- sects the " law of battle " between the males does not prevail , and consequently ...
... male to seek the female , as the latter , with the rarest exceptions , being much the less eager of the two , has to be sedulously courted . Among in- sects the " law of battle " between the males does not prevail , and consequently ...
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... male was created first , with its implication that he supplied the life- giving element , that the supremacy and ... males seemed to be especially fa- voured by nature , not only in the matter of size , but of muscle and adornment , the ...
... male was created first , with its implication that he supplied the life- giving element , that the supremacy and ... males seemed to be especially fa- voured by nature , not only in the matter of size , but of muscle and adornment , the ...
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The Advance of Woman: From the Earliest Times, to the Present (Classic Reprint) Jane Johnstone Christie No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 207 - This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Page 316 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself : handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 207 - And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
Page 326 - For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 22 - Noiselessly as the springtime Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Open their thousand leaves...
Page 310 - And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. 17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread ? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened ? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Page 215 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 323 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 307 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 102 - And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself, and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God hath given thee.