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OXFORD

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MY GENTLE AND LOVING DAUGHTERS,

KAMALA & BIMALĀ,

WHO HAVE CHEERED MY LABOURS AND BLESSED

MY LIFE

WITH THEIR AFFECTION,

I DEDICATE THIS WORK WITH A FATHER'S LOVE.

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Social and Domestic Life; the Position

of Women

Chapter VII. Law, Astronomy, and the Progress of