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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Ought women to learn the alphabet? (search)
t knowing her letters. Still there is something to be said in defence of that venerable ancestress. The Veronese lady, Isotta Nogarola, five hundred and thirty-six of whose learned epistles were preserved by De Thou, composed a dialogue on the question, Whether Adam or Eve had committed the greater sin? But Ludovico Domenichi, in his Dialogue on the nobleness of women, maintains that Eve did not sin at all, because she was not even created when Adam was told not to eat the apple. It is in Adam all died, he shrewdly says; nobody died in Eve: which looks plausible. Be that as it may, Eve's daughters are in danger of swallowing a whole harvest of forbidden fruit, in these revolutionary days, unless something be done to cut off the supply. It has been seriously asserted, that during the last half-century more books have been written by women and about women than during all the previous uncounted ages. It may be true; although, when we think of the innumerable volumes of Memoires
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
ourse, which I have seen in manuscript, arranged under twelve different heads,--one of which treats of the prospect of his valuable life being preserved longer by her care. She having children of her own, he offers mysteriously to put some of his own children out of the way, if necessary,--a hint which becomes formidable when one remembers that he was the author of that once famous theological poem, The day of doom, in which he relentingly assigned to infants, because they had sinned only in Adam, the easiest room in hell. But he wedded the lady, and they were apparently as happy as if he had not been a theologian; and I have seen the quaint little heart-shaped locket he gave her, bearing an anchor and a winged heart and Thine forever. Let us glance now at some of the larger crosses of the Puritan minister. First came a young brood of heretics to torment him. Gorton's followers were exasperating enough; they had to be confined in irons separately, one in each town, on pain of de