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... ideal of greatness Conclusion 265 • • 266 • 269 270 271 273 274 CHAPTER V. THE POSITION OF WOMEN . Importance and difficulties of this branch of history 275 · Women in savage life 276 First stage of progress the cessation of the sale of ...
... ideal of greatness Conclusion 265 • • 266 • 269 270 271 273 274 CHAPTER V. THE POSITION OF WOMEN . Importance and difficulties of this branch of history 275 · Women in savage life 276 First stage of progress the cessation of the sale of ...
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... ideal essentially masculine . - Its contrast to the Christian ideal 361 • Conspicuous part of women in the early Church 363 Deaconesses 365 · Widows 366 Reverence bestowed on the Virgin 367 At the Reformation the feminine type remained ...
... ideal essentially masculine . - Its contrast to the Christian ideal 361 • Conspicuous part of women in the early Church 363 Deaconesses 365 · Widows 366 Reverence bestowed on the Virgin 367 At the Reformation the feminine type remained ...
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... ideal the new religion introduced , and also the methods by which it attempted to realise it . And at the very outset of this enquiry it is necessary to guard against a serious error . It is common with many persons to establish a ...
... ideal the new religion introduced , and also the methods by which it attempted to realise it . And at the very outset of this enquiry it is necessary to guard against a serious error . It is common with many persons to establish a ...
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... ideal sage , and Epictetus had even urged his disciples to set before them some man of surpassing excellence , and to imagine him continually near them ; but the utmost the Stoic ideal could become was a model for imitation , and the ...
... ideal sage , and Epictetus had even urged his disciples to set before them some man of surpassing excellence , and to imagine him continually near them ; but the utmost the Stoic ideal could become was a model for imitation , and the ...
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... ideal of human excellence . Nor did she fall short of what might have been expected . She exercised for many centuries an almost absolute empire over the thoughts and actions of mankind , and created a civilisa- tion which was permeated ...
... ideal of human excellence . Nor did she fall short of what might have been expected . She exercised for many centuries an almost absolute empire over the thoughts and actions of mankind , and created a civilisa- tion which was permeated ...
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