Book/Printed Material Women and the alphabet : a series of essays National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy
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Image 1 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION FROM THE LIBRARY OF LUCY STONE SECTION I. NUMBER 159-a.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 2 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy Thomas Wentworth Higginson WORK. Newly arranged. 7 vol. 1200. 1. Cheerful Yesterdays. 2. Contemporaries. 3. Army Life in a Black Regiment. 4. Women and the Alphabet. 5. Studies in Romance. 6. Outdoor...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 3 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON VOLUME IV- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 4 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET A Series of Essays BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 5 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy COPYRIGHT, 1881 AND 1966, BY THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 6 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy PREFATORY NOTE The first essay in this volume, “Ought Women to learn the Alphabet?” appeared originally in the “Atlantic Monthly” of February, 1859, and has since been reprinted in various forms, bearing...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 7 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy iv translation was made by Fräulein Eugenie Jacobi, under the title “Die Frauenfrage und der gesunde Menschenverstand” (Schupp: Neuwied and Leipzig, 1895). T. W. H. Cambridge, Mass.- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 8 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy v CONTENTS PAGE I. Ought Women to learn the Alphabet? 1 II. Physiology. Too Much Natural History 37 Darwin, Huxley, and Buckle 41 The Spirit of Small Tyranny 46 The Noble Sex...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 9 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy vi A Model Household 129 A Safeguard for the Family 132 Women as Economists 136 Greater includes Less 140 A Copartnership 143 One Responsible Head 147 Asking for Money 151 Womanhood and...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 10 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy vii Some Old-Fashioned Principles 254 Founded on a Rock 258 The Good of the Governed 261 Ruling at Second-Hand 266 VIII. Suffrage. Drawing the Line 270 For Self-Protection 274 Womanly Statesmanship 477...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 11 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy WOMEN AND THE ALPHABET- IOUGHT WOMEN TO LEARN THEALPHABET? Paris smiled, for an hour or two, in the year 1801, when, amidst Napoleon's mighty projects for remodeling the religion and government of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 12 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 2 fruit of the tree of knowledge; quotes from the Encyclopédie, to prove that the woman who knows the alphabet has already lost a portion of her innocence; cites the opinion of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 13 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 3 touched the root of the matter. Ought women to learn the alphabet? There the whole question lies. Concede this little fulcrum, and Archimedea will move the world before she has done...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 14 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 4 dominion over his wife, and may keep her by force within the bounds of duty, and may beat her, but not in a violent or cruel manner;” When Mr. Justice Coleridge...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 15 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 5 population within its borders. Surely, here and now, might poor M. Maréchal exclaim, the bitter fruits of the original seed appear. The sad question recurs, Whether women ought ever to have...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 16 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 6 volumes of Mömoires by French women of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,—each justifying the existence of her own ten volumes by the remark, that all her contemporaries were writing as many,—we...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 17 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 7 last came boldly Jacquette Guillaume, in 1665, and threw down the gauntlet in her title-page, “Les Dames Illustres; où par bonnes et fortes Raisons il se prouve que le Sexe Feminin...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 18 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 8 in French, to prove that women are not reasonable creatures. Modern theologians are at worst merely sub-acid, and do not always say so, if they think so. Meanwhile most persons have...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 19 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 9 starting from the earth an olive-plant and a fountain, side by side. The Delphic oracle said that this indicated a strife between Minerva and Neptune for the honor of giving a...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 20 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 10 intellectual inferiority of woman. She was not to be taught, because she was not worth teaching. The learned Acidalius aforesaid was in the majority. According to Aristotle and the Peripatetics, woman...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 21 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 11 (the “Essex Result,” in 1778): “Women, what age soever they are of, are not considered as having a sufficient acquired discretion [to exercise the franchise].” I harmony with this are the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 22 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 12 any individual, or class, from birth to death, and they learn, in nine cases out of ten, to acquiesce in their degradation, if not to claim it as a crown of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 23 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 13 social prejudice which discourages women would only reward proportionately those who surmount he discouragement. The more obstacles, the more glory, if society would only pay in proportion to the labor; but...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 24 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 14 them to those institutions. If they work as well on half pay, it diminishes the inducement to give them the other half. The safer position is, to claim that they have...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 25 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 15 teacher in the United States finds the enjoyment of her four hundred dollars a year to be secretly embittered by the knowledge that the young college stripling in the next schoolroom...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 26 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 16 Crimea, did not, as most people imagine, rise up and say, “I am a woman, ignorant but intuitive, with very little sense and information, but exceedingly sublime aspirations; my strength lies...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 27 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 17 and the whole course of history has seen these offered bounteously to one sex, and as sedulously withheld from the other. Let woman consent to be a doll, and there was...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 28 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 18 an occasional female lecturer. Mr. Comer stated that it was “in the face of ridicule and sneers” that he began to educate American women as bookkeepers many years ago; and it...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 29 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 19 Emanuele Aponte. How fine are those prefatory words, “by a Right Reverend Prelate,” to that pioneer book in Anglo-Saxon lore, Elizabeth Elstob's grammar: “Our earthly possessions are indeed our patrimony, as...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 30 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 20 And so down to our own day, who knows how many mute, inglorious Minervas may have perished unenlightened, while Margaret Fuller Ossoli and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were being educated “like boys.”...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 31 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 21 of minor importance. With but trifling exceptions, from infusoria up to man, the female animal moves, breathes, looks, listens, runs, flies, swims, pursues its food, eats it, digests it, in precisely...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 32 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 22 ouverte aux talens! Every man for himself, every woman for herself, and the alphabet for us all. Thus far, my whole course of argument has been defensive and explanatory. I have...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 33 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 23 inevitably a period of ignorance, of engrossing physical necessities, and of brute force,—not of freedom, of philanthropy, and of culture. During that lower epoch, woman was necessarily an inferior, degraded by...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 34 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 24 From this reign of force, woman never freed herself by force. She could not fight, or would not. Bohemian annals, to be sure, record the legend of a literal war between...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 35 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 25 at her service. When the all-conquering Dahomian army marched upon Abbeokuta, in 1851, they numbered ten thousand men and six thousand women. The women were, as usual, placed foremost in the...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 36 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 26 races, was delayed, but not omitted. It is not merely true that the empire of the past has belonged to man, but that it has properly belonged to him; for it...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 37 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 27 social and moral changes which are also involved. As has been already said, the woman of ancient history was a slave to physical necessities, both in war and peace. In war...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 38 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 28 the profound absorption of the mass of women in household labors renders their general elevation impossible. But with us Americans, and in this age, when all these vast labors are being...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900
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Image 39 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 29 plebeians,—that the new position will take them from their legitimate business. “How can he [or she] get wisdom that holdeth the plough [or the broom],—whose talk is of bullocks [or of...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
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Image 40 of National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection copy 30 of their country, of humanity, and of their God.” There are duties devolving on every human being,—duties not small nor few, but vast and varied,—which spring from home and private life,...- Contributor: National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) - Catt, Carrie Chapman - Stone, Lucy - Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
- Date: 1900