It Is Grievous To Read The Papers

If This Analysis Of History Is Approximately Sound And If The Future Like The Past Is To Be Crowded With Changes And Exigencies, Then It Is Difficult To Believe That The Feminism Of The Passing Generation, Already Hardened Into Dogma And Tradition, Represents The Completed Form Of Woman's Relations To Work, Interests And Society.

Woman's Success In Lifting Men Out Of Their Way Of Life Nearly Resembling That Of The Beasts Who Merely Hunted And Fished For Food, Who Found Shelter Where They Could In Jungles, In Trees, And Caves Was A Civilizing Triumph.

The Interactions Of Business And Culture, One Upon The Other, Form One Of The Least Explored Phases Of History. For Such A Study, No City Would Appear Better Fixed Than Florence, So Richly Dowered With Both Economic And Spiritual Vitality.

To Ignore [the] Great Social Facts -- Political Facts, If You Please -- And Over-emphasize The Old Moral Responsibility Of The 'domestic' Mother Is A Hollow Mockery And Betrays A Hopeless Ignorance Of Industrial And Urban Conditions In The Twentieth Century. ... Everything That Counts In The Common Life Is Political.

Despite The Modern Dogma To The Effect That Women Were A Subject Sex Until The Nineteenth Century 'emancipated' Them From History, Women In History Had Demonstrated Strong Wills And Purposes, Had Made Assertions, And Had Directed Or Influenced All Human Destiny, Including Their Own, Since Human Life Began.