4.—“... _clogged_ ... _man’s power_ ...”
“He has reaped the usual reward of selfishness, the gratification of
immediate low desires has frustrated the future attainment of higher
aspirations.”—Mrs. Pechey Phipson, M.D. (Address to Hindoos).
5, 6.—“_Egypt or Greece in vain sought heavenly light,
While woman’s soul was held from equal flight._”
In Egypt “the art (of literature) was practised only by the priests, as
the painted history plainly declares.... No female is depicted in the
act of reading.... The Greek world was composed of municipal
aristocracies, societies of gentlemen living in towns, with their farms
in the neighbourhood, and having all their work done for them by slaves.
They themselves had nothing to do but to cultivate their bodies by
exercise in the gymnasium, and their minds by conversation in the
market-place. They lived out of doors, whilst their wives remained shut
up at home. In Greece a lady could only enter society by adopting a mode
of life which in England usually facilitates her exit.”—Winwood Reade
(“The Martyrdom of Man,” pp. 35, 71).
8.—“... _subjugated wife_ ...”
At Athens “the free citizen women lived in strict and almost Oriental
recluseness, as well after being married as when single. Everything
which concerned their lives, their happiness, or their rights, was
determined or managed for them by their male relatives; and they seem to
have been destitute of all mental culture and accomplishments.”—Grote
(“History of Greece,” Vol. VI., p. 133).