In Defense of Women
Book Excerpt: ...even the trade in public offices and contracts, occupies the rulers of the land so steadily, or makes heavier demands upon their ingenuity and their patriotic passion.Familiar with the risks flowing out of it--and having just had to change the plates of my "Book of Prefaces," a book of purely literary criticism, wholly without political purpose or significance, in order to get it through the mails, I determined to make this brochure upon the woman question extremely pianissimo in tone, and to avoid burdening it with any ideas of an unfamiliar, and hence illegal nature. So deciding, I presently added a bravura touch: the unquenchable vanity of the intellectual snob asserting itself over all prudence. That is to say, I laid down the rule that no idea should go into the book that was not already so obvious that it had been embodied in the proverbial philosophy, or folk-wisdom, of some civilized nation, including the Chinese. To this rule I remained faithful throughout. In its original form, as publish...
yazar | H L Mencken |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.69 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 17 Eylül 2020 |
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yazar | H L Mencken |
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isbn 13 | 979-8682360383 |
Yayımcı | Independently Published |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 0.69 x 22.86 cm |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08JDTQXRM |
Tarafından yayınlandı In Defense of Women | 17 Eylül 2020 |
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