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. 1869 Excerpt: ...Victoria Magazine, in 1864: --" Throughout the States there is a respect paid to women which I never saw equalled elsewhere. A young girl might travel alone from Maine to Missouri with the ahsolute certainty that, not only would she meet with no annoyance, but that, on the contrary, she might reckon on the assistance ...
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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. 1869 Excerpt: ...Victoria Magazine, in 1864: --" Throughout the States there is a respect paid to women which I never saw equalled elsewhere. A young girl might travel alone from Maine to Missouri with the ahsolute certainty that, not only would she meet with no annoyance, but that, on the contrary, she might reckon on the assistance of any stranger she met. At times, undoubtedly, the manifestations of this sentiment are exaggerated. It never seemed correct, according to my notions of the ' eternal fitness of things, ' that an old man should be expected, as a matter of course, to give up his seat in the cars to a strapping young woman, as well able to stand as any gentleman in the carriage. Still there is a grace about the custom. No matter whether a woman is old or young, beautiful as Venus, or as ugly as Medusa, she is a woman, and, as such, has a right to a kind of deference not awarded to her in older countries." FREE CHURCHES IN A FREE STATE. 55 Among other results of this state of feeling with regard to woman, is the fact that female education is conducted on a much more exalted scale than it is in Europe, a large number of female colleges having been established, in which the main effort is to teach the useful arts and sciences, without neglecting what are Usually called " accomplishments." And the large number of successful female teachers in schools, as well as the number of well-educated American women, who have been noticed by foreigners in their travels through the country, bear witness to the success of these institutions. CHAPTER VIII. FREE CHURCHES IJT A FREE STATE. Religion, by which, as well as by progressive reason, man is distinguished from the brute creation, is of too much importance to be omitted in even a brief review of the conditio...
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