Volume 1

The history of woman : and her connexion with religion, civilization, and domestic manners, from the earliest period / by S.W. Fullom.

  • Fullom, S. W. (Stephen Watson), -1872.
Date:
1855
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Credit: The history of woman : and her connexion with religion, civilization, and domestic manners, from the earliest period / by S.W. Fullom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guides but the stars of heaven; and the twelve constellations, which still serve as landmarks on the map of the firmament, were, if tradition may be relied on, first traced out by antediluvian sages. We are told in Genesis of the invention of music, for which we are indebted to Jubal, son of Lantech, and of the skill of Tubal as an artificer in brass; while Josephus mentions that the children of Seth, learning from Adam that the world was to be destroyed by a, flood, erected two pillars, one of stone, and the other of brick, as a memorial of their achievements, and which, by their structure and form, would seem to augur no slight acquaintance Avith architecture. If so much uncertainty attaches to the condition of man during this long round of ages, that of woman is involved in far greater obscurity. Of her, little mention is made beyond two or three passing allusions, which, however, intimate, if vaguely, that she sometimes played no mean part in the transactions of the time. On more than one occasion indeed she became the agent of b 2