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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays 34 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 9 (search)
e matter is referred to Phoebus Apollo, who thus rules: The mother is not the parent of what is called her child, but only the nurse of the infant germ; for the male creates the offspring, while the female, like a host for a guest, preserves the young plant, when some god does not mar the increase. He adds also, I will give you a proof of my assertion; there may be a father without a mother; and he then mentions the mythological tradition of the birth of Athena, or Minerva, from the head of Zeus, or Jupiter. This fantastic argument is, of course, irresistible in the view of Greek mythology. But the half truth which lies at the basis of it has always been springing up all over the world, not. alone among barbarous nations, but among the most civilized in the ancient and medieval worlds. For instance, in a valuable paper on the social and family relations among Australian tribes, in the Smithsonian Report for 1883, by A. W. Howitt, we find just this same theory modifying the law o
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
te under the names of men, 259. Wife, position of, in Rome, 45. Will, breaking of, in children, 1°1. Willis, N. P., 289. Winlock, Anna, 287. Wolcott, Mrs., Oliver, 98. Wollstonecraft, Mary. See Godwin. woman of influence, the, 17. woman's enterprise, A, 207. Women, advantages of, 29; as household decorators, 161; as organizers, 20, 149; as public speakers, 239; authors, 18; courage of, 142; disadvantages of, 12, 92; earnings of, 119; education of, 88; employments of, 60, 161,269; plurality of, 38; teachers, 20, 100, 131, 244; their need of strength, 59; working among men, 10; writing under men's names, 259. women as household decorators, 161. Women's Christian Temperance Union, the, 25. women's influence on literary style, 85. women's letters, 110. Wordsworth, William, 302. Worth, M., 17. Wright, C. D., 38. Wright, Thomas, quoted, 148. X. Xanthippe, 81. Y. Yale University, 99. Youth, the flood-tide of, 48. Z. Zeus, 45. The end