The fountain : with jets of new meanings / Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two engravings. By Andrew Jackson Davis.

  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The fountain : with jets of new meanings / Illustrated with one hundred and forty-two engravings. By Andrew Jackson Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    mathematics. Patchwork, cooking, and sweeping thy mechanics; dress and embroidery thy fine arts. See how small the sphere. Do not venture outside of it, nor teach thy daughters, when thou shalt have such, to do so.' And so we women, from generation to generation, are drilled to be the apes of an artificial standard, made for us and imposed upon us by an out- sider ; a being who, in this attitude, becomes our natural enemy. Thus the difference in the conduct of life between men and women in popular society, is founded in the difference established through their unjust education and dissimilar habits. Inasmuch as men and women are derived from the same fountain of divine life, are compounded of identical elements, and have a common destiny in the grand progressive career of eternity ; therefore they should learn at once, and practically, to make less educational difference on account of sex in their tastes, professions, interests, duties, labors, and emoluments. There is an unfathomable pit of injustice in that social structure which makes labors, rewards, pleas- ures, vices, crimes, and the enactment and enforcement of laws, turn upon the shallow question of sex. Any theory of life, religion, or government, which un- balances the divine equilibrium of Justice, in effect evolves and confirms a wicked warfare between men