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...NOTION that feminism is a recent or purely Western phenonenon should be dispelled by this book. You will find no calls for the maintenance of the status quo because the book was not intended to give air to any conservative views women might have. And while the contributers in some cases refer to progress taking place, they overwhelmingly call for change. But for all the similarities we find in the calls for action, we leave the book with a profound conception that the immediate concerns, obstacles and priorities of these activist women are anything but uniform across the globe...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: From Woman as World Reformer... | 3/9/1985 | See Source »

...dictum. It is not, therefore, without a keen analysis of the trend of education that Viscont Finlay, former Lord Chancellor of England, upon assuming the Presidency of the Classical Association of Scotland, ventured the opinion that the tide of interest had turned in favor of the classics. That this phenonenon is not purely European is indicated by the increased enrolment in classical courses in American universities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAD LANGUAGES? | 2/21/1924 | See Source »

...world of experience in the light of this theory. Towards 1769 signs of a revolution in Kant's mode of thinking were visible. He became convinced that space and time did not exist. Therefore all the outward world, which we fix in space and time, must be simply phenonenon, and outside of ourselves. In this fact is found a limit to knowledge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Royce's Lecture. | 10/23/1890 | See Source »

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