| | 146 | 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 |
| 150 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Up From Slavery: An Autobiography / By Booker T. Washington | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am
not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at
any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.
As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads
post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do
not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can now
recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters — the latter
being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 159 | Author: | Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TO speak of a prehistoric science may seem like
a contradiction of terms. The word prehistoric
seems to imply barbarism, while science, clearly
enough, seems the outgrowth of civilization; but
rightly considered, there is no contradiction. For,
on the one hand, man had ceased to be a barbarian
long before the beginning of what we call the historical
period; and, on the other hand, science, of a kind, is
no less a precursor and a cause of civilization than it
is a consequent. To get this clearly in mind, we must
ask ourselves: What, then, is science? The word
runs glibly enough upon the tongue of our every-day
speech, but it is not often, perhaps, that they who use
it habitually ask themselves just what it means. Yet
the answer is not difficult. A little attention will
show that science, as the word is commonly used,
implies these things: first, the gathering of knowledge
through observation; second, the classification of such
knowledge, and through this classification, the elaboration
of general ideas or principles. In the familiar
definition of Herbert Spencer, science is organized
knowledge. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 160 | Author: | Williams, Henry Smith, 1863-1943 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AN obvious distinction between the classical and
mediæval epochs may be found in the fact that
the former produced, whereas the latter failed to produce,
a few great thinkers in each generation who were
imbued with that scepticism which is the foundation
of the investigating spirit; who thought for themselves
and supplied more or less rational explanations of
observed phenomena. Could we eliminate the work
of some score or so of classical observers and thinkers,
the classical epoch would seem as much a dark age as
does the epoch that succeeded it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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