1882

Copyright, 1881,

By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

All rights reserved.

To

My Little Daughter Margaret.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE
Physiology [5]
I.Too much Natural History[7]
II.Darwin, Huxley, and Buckle[11]
III.Which is the Stronger?[16]
IV.The Spirit of Small Tyranny[18]
V.“The Noble Sex”[21]
VI.Physiological Croaking[24]
VII.The Truth about our Grandmothers[28]
VIII.The Physique of American Women[33]
IX.“Very much Fatigued”[37]
X.The Limitations of Sex[40]
Temperament [43]
XI.The Invisible Lady[45]
XII.Sacred Obscurity[49]
XIII.“Our Trials”[52]
XIV.Virtues in Common[55]
XV.Individual Differences[60]
XVI.Angelic Superiority[63]
XVII.Vicarious Honors[66]
XVIII.The Gospel of Humiliation[69]
XIX.“Celery and Cherubs”[73]
XX.The Need of Cavalry[77]
XXI.“The Reason Firm, the Temperate Will”[80]
XXII.“Allures to Brighter Worlds, and leads the Way”[83]
The Home [87]
XXIII.Wanted—Homes[89]
XXIV.The Origin of Civilization[93]
XXV.The Low-Water Mark[96]
XXVI.“Obey”[99]
XXVII.Woman in the Chrysalis[103]
XXVIII.Two and Two[106]
XXIX.A Model Household[109]
XXX.A Safeguard for the Family[112]
XXXI.Women as Economists[116]
XXXII.Greater includes Less[120]
XXXIII.A Co-Partnership[123]
XXXIV.“One Responsible Head”[127]
XXXV.Asking for Money[131]
XXXVI.Womanhood and Motherhood[135]
XXXVII.A German Point of View[139]
XXXVIII.Childless Women[142]
XXXIX.The Prevention of Cruelty to Mothers[145]
Society [149]
XL.Foam and Current[151]
XLI.“In Society”[155]
XLII.The Battle of the Cards[159]
XLIII.Some Working-Women[163]
XLIV.The Empire of Manners[167]
XLV.“Girlsterousness”[171]
XLVI.Are Women Natural Aristocrats?[175]
XLVII.Mrs. Blank’s Daughters[178]
XLVIII.The European Plan[181]
XLIX.“Featherses”[185]
L.Some Man-Millinery[189]
LI.Sublime Princes in Distress[192]
Education [197]
LII.“Experiments”[199]
LIII.Intellectual Cinderellas[203]
LIV.Foreign Education[207]
LV.Teaching the Teachers[210]
LVI.“Cupid-and-Psychology”[213]
LVII.Medical Science for Women[216]
LVIII.Sewing in Schools[219]
LIX.Cash Premiums for Study[223]
LX.Mental Horticulture[226]
Employment [231]
LXI.“Sexual Difference of Employment”[233]
LXII.The Use of One’s Feet[237]
LXIII.Miss Ingelow’s Problem[240]
LXIV.Self-Support[245]
LXV.Self-Supporting Wives[248]
LXVI.The Problem of Wages[251]
LXVII.Thorough[255]
LXVIII.Literary Aspirants[259]
LXIX.“The Career of Letters”[263]
LXX.Talking and Taking[266]
LXXI.How to speak in Public[269]
Principles of Government[273]
LXXII.We the People[275]
LXXIII.The Use of the Declaration of Independence[278]
LXXIV.The Traditions of the Fathers[281]
LXXV.Some Old-Fashioned Principles[285]
LXXVI.Founded on a Rock[288]
LXXVII.“The Good of the Governed”[292]
LXXVIII.Ruling at Second-Hand[296]
LXXIX.“Too Many Voters already”[299]
Suffrage [303]
LXXX.Drawing the Line[305]
LXXXI.For Self-Protection[309]
LXXXII.Womanly Statesmanship[312]
LXXXIII.Too Much Prediction[316]
LXXXIV.First-Class Carriages[320]
LXXXV.Education via Suffrage[324]
LXXXVI.“Off with her Head!”[328]
LXXXVII.Follow your Leaders[331]
LXXXVIII.How to make Women understand Politics.[335]
LXXXIX.“Inferior to Man, and Near to Angels”[339]
Objections to Suffrage[343]
XC.The Fact of Sex[345]
XCI.How will it result?[349]
XCII.“I have All the Rights I want”[352]
XCIII.“Sense Enough to Vote”[356]
XCIV.An Infelicitous Epithet[359]
XCV.The Rob Roy Theory[363]
XCVI.The Votes of Non-Combatants[368]
XCVII.“Manners repeal Laws”[372]
XCVIII.Kilkenny Arguments[375]
XCIX.Women and Priests[379]
C.The Roman Catholic Bugbear[382]
CI.Dangerous Voters[386]
CII.How Women will legislate[389]
CIII.Warned in Time[393]
CIV.Individuals vs. Classes[396]
CV.Defeats before Victories[400]

PHYSIOLOGY.

“Allein, bevor und nachdem man Mutter ist, ist Man ein Mensch; die mütterliche Bestimmung aber, oder gar die eheliche, kann nicht die menschliche überwiegen oder ersetzen, sondern sie muss das Mittel, nicht der Zweck derselben sein.”— J.P.F. Richter: Levana, § 89.