Word: woman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Delphic man, through whom the gods spoke to men; as the unpractical person intensely interested in practical affairs, and delighting in "people who can do things," and as the good neighbor, caring for his friends and fellow citizens, and standing up - in the words of an old woman of the village - "just as if he thought other people were as good...
...Woman Suffrage is desirable; it will raise the position of woman. - (a) Legally: protect her interests. - (b) Intellectually: suffrage stimulates education. - (c) Socially: give her equality in the home. - (d) Will not take woman out of her "sphere": Dr. M. P. Jacobi, 93-108. - (1) Such conception a relic of militarism. - (2) Womanliness the result of maternal instincts, not of outside influences. - (3) Recent reforms have not made woman "unwomanly...
...HUTTON and E. P. WILLIAMS.Best general references: New Englander, XLIII, 193-212 (March 1884); Forum IV, 1-13 (Sept. 1887); Nineteenth Century XXV, 781-785 (June 1889); Catherine E. Beecher, Woman's Suffrage and Woman's Profession; Francis Parkman, Woman's Suffrage; Horace Bushnell, Woman's Suffrage, The Reform Against Nature...
...Woman's suffrage is not necessary. - (a) Women's interests are already well represented. Their interests, though equal to men's are not identical with them. - (b) The majority of women do not want it: Nineteenth Century, XXV, 281-285. - (1) Advocated by a few zealots. - (2) Where privilege exists it is little used...
...would be deleterious to the interests of society. - (a) It would take woman from her natural sphere - the home. - (b) It would diminish her elevating and refining influence: Arena II, 175; Bushnell, Women's Suffrage...