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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 46 (search)
the whole relation between the white race on this continent and the aborigines is being influenced by the fact that Helen Jackson wrote A century of Dishonor and Ramona. We cannot, if we would, keep woman's hand off the helm, since even the Greek orator Demosthenes confessed that measures which the statesman had meditated for a year might be overturned in a day by a woman. But it is for us to decide whether this power shall be exercised by an enlightened mind or an unenlightened one-by Madame Roland or Theroigne de Mericourt. Finally, let us meet the objection on its most familiar ground, and assume that all the main work of the world is to be done by men. Who are to bear or rear those men? Women. In every land that missionaries visit it is found, first or last, to be quite useless to educate only the men. Take men of any race at the time when they pass out of the care of women, and you take them too late. Their characters are already formed, and have been formed mainly by the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 59 (search)
that breath has come. Before, all was city and suburb; it is country now. The next turn in the road shows you Wachusett, or Monadnock, or Ascutney, and you are among the hills. The reprobate French poet Baudelaire, in one of his best poems, sighs to have been the lover of some youthful giantess; and describes her superb proportions as cast carelessly along the horizon and protecting her lover by their vast shade. Browning, more powerfully, describes the hills as gathering round his Childe Roland to watch the hour of danger beneath the Dark Tower: The dying sunset kindled through a cleft; The hills, like giants at a hunting, lay, Chin upon hand, to see the game at bay- Now stab and end the creature — to the heft! And even the gentle Charles Lamb, reluctantly torn from London streets to visit Wordsworth and Coleridge at the English Lakes, could not escape this same circle of gigantic figures, and found them protecting and kindly as he looked from his window at night: Glor
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
, 254. Purse, the independent, 115. Q. Quite rustic, 100. R. Rachel, 250, 252, 263. Radcliffe, Ann, 160. Rambouillet, Marquis de, 86. Ramona, influence of, 236. Rank in England, 126. Recamier, Madame, 76, 77. Relationship to one's mother, on one's, 43. return to the hills, A, 301. Richardson, Samuel, 11. Richelieu, Cardinal, 87. Robespierre, F. J. M. I., 6. Rochejaquelein, Baroness de la, 56. Rochester, Lord, 5. Rogers, Professor W. B., 96, 287. Roland, Madame, 236. Romola, 260. Routledge, George, 18, 19. Royalty, childishness of, 21, 105. royalty, the toy of, 105. Rudder Grange quoted, 42. Ruskin, John, quoted, 100. S. St. Leonards, Lord, 138. Saints, vacations for, 33. Salem sea-captains, youthfulness of, 247. Sales-ladies, 172. Salisbury, Lord, 136. Salmon, L. M., 287. Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A. Sanitary Commission, the, 235. Santa Claus agencies, 269. Sappho, 262. Sapsea, Thomas, 94.