WOMANS WORTH AND
WORTHLESSNESS - 1872 - P R E F A C E - I HAVE called my book The
Colnplement to a New
Atmospl ere, to remove, if possible, the misapprehension, of those who have given it the 11011or of their
attention as it llas
appeared fro111 veel to veek, and n ho have keen
disturbed by what has seemed to them a change of views. Strictly spealiing, it is iinpossible to obtain, and insolent to unclertake to present an adequate idea of any subjector object without changing ones views. TVe are directed by very high authority to walk about Zion, ancl go I-ouncl about her, not stancl still ancl stare at her froin one point. I suppose Zion looked very different seen from the Mount of Olives and the Fount of Gihon, but it was Zion all the while. Change of views involves Inore or less change of opinions-is, incleed, made for the purpose of forming opinion. Looking but casually at JYoman Suffrage, I regarded it with indifference. Fro111 a careful sursrey, I can not regard it but wit11 apprehension. The more closely I scrutinize it, the more formidable seems to me the revolution which it implies, the more onerous seem the duties vl icll it imposes. I feel, also, ever inore and more vividly, that It is not ours to separate The tangled skein of . ill and fate and many things which once I woulcl have attributed to cold-blooded malice I would now attribute to partial gro vtl, to imperfect adjustment, ancl so find it easier to hate, up root, and cast away the sin, and yet love the sinner-if he rs not too hateful But of any change important enough to be spoken of-supposing any change worth speaking of-I am unconscious. I know that I have neyer swerved a hairs breadth from my belief that the only way out of our estate of sin and misery is the slow growth of individual excellence, ancl that it is in the Iloine, in the family-more sacred than any church, the only divine institution-that this excellence must be chiefly nurtured. TVhether such a belief assigns to woman a co ninanding or a subordinate position in the vorlds economy I inust leave - to the judgment of my readers. GAIL HAMILTON. CIIAI I T . E T E HE STATE OF NATURE ................................... PAG 9 E 11 . THE STATE OF FRENCH GRACE .......................... 24 I11 . FALLING FROM GRACE ..................................... 45 IV . THE FURSUIT OF THE FORTY THOUSAND ................. 64 V . THINGS NEEDED AND THINGS WANTED .................... 90 V1 . WOJTEN AMONG THE PROPHETS ........................... 116 V11 . DISABILITIES .............................................. I 3 4 V111 . SERFDOhf .................................................. 54 I x . SERVILE OCCUPATIONS ..................................... 167 X . HOME TRAINING ........................................... 180 XI . FEhlALE SAGACITY IN POLITICS ............................. 191 XII . PRESS. VORK ............................................... 206 XI11 . REPRESENTATIVE REFORM ................................. 237 XIV . THE NECESSITY OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE .................... 246 xv . EXEAIPTION OR IMPOSITION ................................ 264 XVI . THE ATTITUDE OF MEN ................................... 272 XVII . RESULTS ................................................... 276 VOllANS WORTH AND TVORTHLESSNESS. THE STATE OF NATURE. MY dear, I said to my friend Hassan the Turk-Has-San is not his real name but circumstances, into which a generous public will not, I trust, peer too closely, have made an alias grareful- My dear, I said, I shall go To Professor Blot....
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