Volume 1

History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl.

  • Christoph Meiners
Date:
1808
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Credit: History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HISTORY DF ]0G days of affliction, or to give them ad vice in rnatters of importance, The females of the East are in general just what tliey are considered by their most passionate admirers, children destitute of souls, or’ creatures with but half a soul, destined for liiere animal enjoyment^ and the pro- jiagation of the species. Incomprehensibleas the want of love in the Orientais under these circumstances may appear, the profound conteinpt which these very people entertain for a sex so essential to their happiness^ may neverlhe- less be very easily accounted for. In beings so childish, rüde, ignorant, and un- ciiltivated as the females of the East, in whom, no less than in the men, the climate has implanted an insatiable appetite; the propensity to every kind of sensual grati- fication, and all the passions of little, un- ■ polished, and debased minds, must be infinitely stronger than in ihe women of i our dlvision of the globe : because the in- nate vices are neither eradicated by the cultivation of the heartand understanding, nor suppressed by useful industry; but on the contrary, are povverfully inflamed and ekcited by confinement, and the illusions of those very passions. Accordingly, all the laws and religions, all the moralists
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