Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular LecturesWit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures is a book by George Washington Bain. Excerpt: "In the exhibition of fine paintings it is important to have the benefit of proper light and shadow. So it should be in the study of questions. Those who look at the new woman through the distorted lense of false education or prejudice, see the monstrosity such as we have pictured in the public press. They see Dr. Mary Walker, whose dress offends our sense of propriety; they see the ranting woman on the platform, or suffragettes throwing stones through plate-glass windows, and defacing costly specimens of art. These no more represent the genuine new woman I indorse, than does the goggled-eyed, kimbo-armed dandy represent true manhood. Fanaticism marks every new movement, every life has its defect, the sun its spots and the fairest face its freckles." |
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Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven Into Eight ... George W. Bain Limited preview - 1915 |
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry, and Story Woven Into Eight ... George Washington Bain No preview available - 2018 |
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