[The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Business of Being a Woman CHAPTER IX 7/39
The world has been wholly in the hands of men, and they have believed that men alone had the ability, felt the necessity, for developing civilization, the business, education, and religion of the world." Women's present aim she declares to be the "reassumption of their share in human life." This is, of course, a modern putting of the List of Grievances with which the militant campaign started in this country in the 40's, reenforced by the important point that women "back of history" enjoyed the privileges which the earlier militants declared that man, "having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her," had always usurped. Just how the lady knows that "back of history" women and men were more perfect comrades than to-day, I do not know.
Her proofs would be interesting.
If this is true, it reverses the laws which have governed all other human relations.
Certainly, since history began, the only period where I can pretend to judge what has happened, the records show that comradeship between men and women has risen and fallen with the rise and fall of cultivation and of virtue.
The general level is probably higher to-day than ever before. Moreover, from these same records one might support as plausibly--and as falsely--the theory of a Woman-made World as the popular one of a Man-made World.
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