Looking Forward: A Treatise on the Status of Woman and the Origin and Growth of the Family and the State

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C. H. Kerr, 1913 - 234 pagina's

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Pagina 49 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Pagina 5 - Tis a foe invisible The which I fear — a fearful enemy, Which in the human heart opposes me, By its coward fear alone made fearful to me. Not that, which full of life, instinct with power, Makes known its present being; that is not The true, the perilously formidable.
Pagina 68 - They could not leave their lord without his permission ; but if they ran away, or were purloined from him, might be claimed and recovered by action, like beasts, or other chattels.
Pagina 9 - Are the actions of / men, and therefore of societies, governed, by, fixed laws, or are they the result either of chance or of supernatural interference ? The discussion of these alternatives will suggest some speculations of considerable interest.
Pagina 34 - And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night ; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.
Pagina 49 - But though our law in general considers man and wife as one person, yet there are some instances in which she is separately considered ; as inferior to him, and acting by his compulsion.
Pagina 11 - IF we inquire what those physical agents are by which the human race is most powerfully influenced, we shall find that they may be classed under four heads : namely, Climate, Food , Soil, and the General Aspect of Nature ; by which last I mean those appearances which, though presented chiefly to the sight, have, through the medium of that or other senses, directed the association of ideas, and hence in different countries have given rise to different habits of national thought.
Pagina 56 - ... or as was often done, go and start a new matrimonial alliance in some other. The women were the great power among the clans, as everywhere else They did not hesitate, when occasion required, to 'knock off the horns...
Pagina 53 - To many thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to few thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.
Pagina 50 - The husband also, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction. For, as he is to answer for her misbehaviour, the law thought it reasonable to intrust him with this power of restraining her, by domestic chastisement, in the same moderation that a man is allowed to correct his apprentices or children, for wHhom the master or parent is also liable in some cases to answer.

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