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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...sympathy, which will display itself in regard, first, to the married, afterwards to the unmarried woman. In the case of the man's own wife, if he truly loves her, his sympathy will prevent his causing her unhappiness by preferring other women to her. In the case of the wife of another, in addition to the fear of the husband's vengeance, there would be some scruple in the mind of a man of any sympathetic feeling if he subjected her to the blows and ill-humour of her jealous owner; and few men would be so thick-skinned as to feel in no degree the condemnation of the community which felt the unfairness of interfering with property which another man had paid for. In regard to the unmarried girl, the scruples of men are of much later date; but if we suppose that stage to be reached in which the father and brothers of a maid are to receive a certain sum for her when she attains the age of marriage, and assume that her value depends to some extent on her purity, as it almost always does at the level of the lower civilisation, it becomes clear that a strong public feeling will arise in condemnation of the laxity even of unmarried girla When this has been long operative, the girl detected in an amour stands abashed, and in some of the Malay and Mongolian races suicide under such circumstances is not rare; the early Jews and neighbouring peoples put to death girls found guilty of looseness. Some of the Papuan tribes keep their maidens in cages to ensure that they may be uncontaminated at their marriage, and analogous customs of Polynesians have already been mentioned. From such coarse discipline sprang the modesty of the maid in the early civilisation; it grew and gathered a personal dignity of its own, and as it grew there must have arisen in the minds of...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150189029
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150189029
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 304 gr


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