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"...under the guidance of the canon of pecuniary decency, the men find the resulting artificially induced pathological features attractive...the constricted waist which has had so wide and persistent a vogue in the communities of the Western culture, and so also the deformed foot of the Chinese...these are mutilations"

I supposed I shouldn't be too surprised to see socialism writings, but alas, I was

Think what it is to a boy, to grow up to manhood in the belief that without any merit or any exertion of his own...he may be the most frivolous and empty or the most ignorant and stolid of mankind, by the mere fact of being born a male he is by right the superior of all and every one of an entire half of the human race...how early the notion of his inherent superiority to a girl arises in his mind

She must feel, if she feels rightly, that she is fulfilling one of the important duties laid upon her as an accountable duties laid upon her as an accountable being, and that her character, instead of being unnatural, is in exact accordance with the will of Him to whom, and to no other, she is responsible for the talents and the gifts confided to her
that what they have leaned upon has proved a broken reed...a spear.