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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill ... ...TUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furnis... ... of the primitive condition of humanity; and only the few who have studied history accurately, or have much fre quented the parts of the world occupi... ... faculties of any person in those ages, ex cept a philosopher or a saint. History gives a cruel experience of human nature, in showing how exactly th... ...of thou sands of unfit persons is no gain; for if the constitution of the electoral body disposes them to choose unfit persons, there are always plen... ...remedied. Already, in many of the new and several of the old States of the American Confederation, provisions have been inserted even in the written C... ...y successfully, and one of them, Margaret of Austria, as one of the ablest politicians of the age. So much for one side of the ques tion. Now as to t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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