Woman & womanhood : a search for principles / by C.W. Saleeby.

  • Caleb Saleeby
Date:
1912
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Credit: Woman & womanhood : a search for principles / by C.W. Saleeby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WOMAN AND WOMANHOOD CHAPTER I FIRST PRINCIPLES We are often and rightly reminded that woman is half the human race. It is truer even than it appears. Not only is woman half of the present generation, but present woman is half of all the generations of men and women to come. The argument of this book, which will be regarded as reactionary by many women called “ advanced ”—presumably as doctors say that a case of consumption is “ advanced ”— in- volves nothing other than adequate recognition of the importance of woman in the most important of all matters. It is true that my primary concern has been to furnish, for the individual woman and for those in charge of girlhood, a guide of life based upon the known physiology of sex. But it is a poor guide of life which considers only the transient in- dividual, and poorest of all in this very case. If it were true that woman is merely the vessel and custodian of the future lives of men and women, en- trusted to her ante-natal care by their fathers, as