And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to w...hich you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning--"enemies of society," as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side.... Hell is not to love any more, madame. Not to love any more!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead. ...The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professi...ons, or by refusing to compete with man at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She i...s a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling ...laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The philosopher is in advance of his age even in the outward form of his life. He is not fed, sheltered, clothed, warmed, like his... contemporaries. How can a man be a philosopher and not maintain his vital heat by better methods than other men?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise impro...ve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance... but feebly. It is in vain that we would circumscribe the power of one half of our race, and that half by far the most important and influential. If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. Let women stand where they may in the scale of improvement, their position decides that of the race. Are they cultivated?--so is society polished and enlightened. Are they ignorant?--so is it gross and insipid. Are they wise?--so is the human condition prosperous. Are they foolish? So is it unstable and unpromising. Are they free?--so is the human character elevated. Are they enslaved?--so is the whole race degraded.... Man will ever rise or fall to the level of the other sex ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art... mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »