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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Greek Women, by Mitchell Carroll This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Greek Women Women In All Ages and In All Countries, Vol. l (of 10) Author: Mitchell Carroll Release Date: May 10, 2010 [EBook #32318] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GREEK WOMEN *** Produced by Thierry Alberto, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net. WOMAN In all ages and in all countries GREEK WOMEN by MITCHELL CARROLL, Ph.D. Professor of Classical Philology in the George Washington University _Copyrighted 1907-1908_ GENERAL INTRODUCTION The history of woman is the history of the world. Strait orthodoxy may remind us that man preceded woman in the scheme of creation and that therefore history does not begin with woman; but this is a specious plea. The first historical information that we gain regarding Adam is concerned with the creation of woman, and there is nothing to show us that prior to that time Adam was more active in mind or even in body than a mollusc. It was not until the coming of woman that history began to exist; and if the first recorded act of the woman was disastrous in its consequences, at least it possesses the distinction of making history. So that it may well be said that all that we are we owe to woman. Whether or not the story of the Garden of Eden is to be implicitly accepted, there can be no doubt that from the moment of the first appearance of mankind on the scene woman has been the ruling cause of all effect. The record of woman is one of extremes. There is an average woman, but she has not been found except in theory. The typical woman, as she is seen in the pages of history, is either very good or very bad. We find women saints and we find women demons; but we rarely find a mean. Herein is a cardinal distinction between the sexes. The man of history is rarely altogether good or evil; he has a distinct middle ground, in which we are most apt to find him in his truest aspect. There are exceptions, and many; but this may be taken as a rule. Even in the instances of the best and noblest men of whom we h
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