Woman: Her Character, Her Position, and Her Treatment, From the Earliest Days Down to the Present Times (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Hitherto, civilization has been estimated rather by the diffusion of luxury, than by the progress of truth - by those works of imagi nation, which gild history with brilliant names, -which embellish galleries with pictures and statues, and delight the fancy with gay and gorgeous visions, rather than by those sober triumphs of reason and right feeling, which ih crease the comforts of many, if their trophies render few immortal. For this reason, almost all history is a work of imagination - the events dispose themselves into striking pic tures, - the leading characters fill the fore ground; the painter becomes a partizan, - so does the spectator - our sympathies are riveted on the few - the background is in shadow, and that shadow covers the multitude.

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