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.
History Has Been Conceived--and With High Justification In The Records--as The Human Struggle For Civilization Against Barbarism In Different Ages And Places, From The Beginning Of Human Societies.
... The Precedents For Feminine Self-expression Run Back Through All The Ages Since The Art Of Writing Was Invented. ... The Era May Witness The First Female Engineer, Motor Truck Chauffeur, Radio Broadcaster, Head Of An Aviation School, Or Federal Prohibition Officer, But It Has Not Produced The First Thinking, Creative, And Writing Woman By Any Means.
The Woman's Bill Of Rights Is, Unhappily, Long Overdue. It Should Have Run Along With The Rights Of Man In The Eighteenth Century. Its Drag As To Time Of Official Proclamation Is A Drag As To Social Vision. And Even If Equal Rights Were Now Written Into The Law Of Our Land, It Would Be So Inadequate Today As A Means To Food, Clothing And Shelter For Woman At Large That What They Would Still Be Enjoying Would Be Equality In Disaster Rather Than In Realistic Privilege.
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.
The 'public' - A Term Often Used In America To Indicate The Great Metropolitan Newspapers.
While It Is Generally Agreed That The Visible Expressions And Agencies Are Necessary Instruments, Civilization Seems To Depend Far More Fundamentally Upon The Moral And Intellectual Qualities Of Human Beings-upon The Spirit That Animates Mankind.
The Trade Agreement Has Become A Rather Distinct Feature Of The American Labor Movement. ... It Is Based On The Idea That Labor Shall Accept The Capitalist System Of Production And Make Terms Of Peace With It.
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.
In Matters Pertaining To The Care Of Life There Has Been No Marked Gain Over Greek And Roman Antiquity.
