Excerpt from Woman, and Her Place in a Free Society She, more and more, accepting as inevitable the situation; moving, sad-eyed, to her patient and uncom plaining work; to the narrow sphere and petty details of household labor and life, and to the obscurity of unrecognised cares and interests; filling the world with her myriad nameless unrecorded acts of tenderness and love, of drudgery and daily tendance, of patience and self-effacement, little noticed and less understood; yet all the while with her own impulses and character, her own talents and genius, smothered away and blighted by confinement and neglect; her brain dwarfed; and her outlook on the world marred by all falsity and ignorance. Guchhasbeenatheufateigf., w.qman through the centuries. Till at last, becoming indeed only too firmed to the external conditions of her life, she has often even mentally lapsed into the chattel and property of the male, and (like the wage-earner) been able only to see her good in clinging for support to the very person who used her for his profit and his pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.