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Mr. Edward Carpenter in his book, “Love’s Coming of Age,” has touched upon the sad position of many a woman to–day in words of terrible pathos. He says: “The periods of man’s ascendancy have generally been periods of so much sadness and degradation of woman. He, all through, more and more calmly assuming that it must be her province to live and work for him; shutting her more and more into the seclusion of her boudoir and the harem; confining her body, her mind; playing always upon her sex–nature, accentuating that, as though, indeed, she were nought else but sex; yet furious if her feelings were not always obedient to his desire; arrogating to himself a masculine licence, yet revenging the least unfaithfulness on her part by casting her out into the scorned life of the prostitutes; … while she, more
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