Woman physiologically considered as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1839
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    perseverance.—Accidents of her vital system opposed to reason- ing.—Easy derangement of mental faculties.—Great exertion of these destructive of beauty, &c.—Character of female literature and science.—Unfitness of learned and philosophical ladies for natural duties.—Sphere of their accomplishments and natural duties.—Distinguished women neither the most beautiful nor the most gentle of their sex.—Mrs. Wolstonecraft's error as to the degradation of woman.—Rousseau's observations on female cha- racter being dependent on education.—Queen Mar}''s remark on the wisdom of women.—That high intellect would insure the miserj' of woman.—Relative value of man's and woman's sharefi in life. PART II.—MORALS, p. 49. Woman's sense of what is fitting.—Her politeness.—Her vanity.—Madame de Stael's opinion on this subject.—The affec- tions of woman.—Her sentiments.—Mrs. Macauley's abuse of Lord Bacon, &c.—The friendship of woman.—Madame de Stael's account of it.—The philanthrophy, patriotism and politics of woman.—Woman, a legislator.—Character of Queen Elizabeth. —Woman's dependence on and knowledge of man.—Her love.— Her artifice.—Her coquetry.—Her caprice.—Her excellence in all the instinctive faculties; her deficiency in the reasoning ones. PART III.—MARRIAGE, p. 92. Marriage among the inferior animals.—Hume's doctrine as to marriage.—The errors it involves.—Monogamy shown to be a natural law, essential to domestic peace and social happiness.— This confirmed by the near equality of the sexes.—By the effects of monogamy on the moral, civil and political state of society.— Its consequent encouragement by states.—Interference of the priesthood with marriage.—Duration of marriage.—Opinions of Shelley and Madame de Stael.—Opinion of Hume.—The cir- cumstance of progeny neglected by both parties.—Shelley's view of indissoluble marriage.—Dissolution of the marriage tie amonp the Greeks and Romans.—Power of the archon at Athens.— Pericles and his wife.—Csto and Martia,—Corruptions of the em-