| | 201 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Mysterious Stranger; A Romance by Mark Twain [pseud.] with
illustrations by N.C. Wyeth.  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT WAS IN 1590—winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep;
it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever.
Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the
mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But
they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were
all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember,
too, the pleasure it gave me. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 205 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Roughing It | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada
Territory—an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself
the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of
State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of
eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary,"
gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I
was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his
distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and
especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the
curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to
travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel"
had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds
and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and
among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and
Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of
adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such
a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero.
And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe
go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two
or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on
the hillside. And by and by he would become very rich, and return
home by sea, and be able to talk as calmly about San Francisco and
the ocean, and "the isthmus" as if it was nothing of any
consequence to have seen those marvels face to face. What I
suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe. And
so, when he offered me, in cold blood, the sublime position of
private secretary under him, it appeared to me that
the heavens and the earth passed away, and the firmament was
rolled together as a scroll! I had nothing more to desire. My
contentment was complete.
ENVIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS.
At the end of an hour or two I was ready for the journey. Not
much packing up was necessary, because we were going in the
overland stage from the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and
passengers were only allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece.
There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve
years ago—not a single rail of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 216 | Author: | Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated
from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul / Vaerting, Mathilde, 1884- | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TESTIMONY concerning the dominance of women
among various peoples differs greatly in comprehensiveness.
As regards the ancient Egyptians such
abundant evidence is forthcoming that the existence of
feminine dominance as far as this people is concerned
has been placed beyond question for all who have
studied the matter objectively. In the case of the
Spartans the historical traces are perhaps less numerous,
but they are so plain as to leave no doubt as to
the reality of the dominance of women in that nation.
In both instances, therefore, we have proof of the existence
of feminine dominance among civilised peoples.
As far as savages are concerned, the most detailed
reports that have come to hand anent the dominance
of women relate to the Kamchadales, the Chamorros,
the Iroquois, the Basque-Iberian stocks, the Garos, the
Dyaks, and the Balonda. In addition there were, for
example, the Libyans, among whom it is demonstrable
that the dominance of women was once absolute at
a time when they were at least in an intermediate
stage between barbarism and civilisation. We find,
moreover, fairly definite traces of the dominance of
women among numerous races in the most diverse
phases of development; for instance in Tibet and in
Burma, among the Khonds, the Creeks, etc. Bachofen
has shown that matriarchy (the mother-right) existed
in Lycia, Crete, Athens, Lemnos, Egypt, India and
Central Asia, Orchomenos and Minyae, Elis, Locris,
Lesbos, Mantinea, and among the Cantabri. In
Bachofen's terminology, matriarchy (Mutterrecht) is
synonymous with the dominance of women. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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