...passive, and receptive.6 And as that consummate representative of Victorian culture, John Ruskin, wrote, "The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest." Women, in contrast, "must be enduringly, incorruptibly, good; instinctively, infallibly wise — wise,...

...social arrangements on the basis of a clearly distinguished difference of sexual natures: Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest is necessary. But the woman s power is for rule, not battle — and her intellect is not for invention...

...heated public debates that ensued after the publication oí On the Origin of Species (1859). Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention...

...Sesame and Lilies. Stoker's Mina may be fruitfully read in the light of Ruskin s Queen.] Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, - and her intellect is not for invention...

...original purity and power of which we owe the defence alike of faith, of law, and of love. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention...

...both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other onlv can give. j Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for invention...

...warfare, bearing arms, to military service, fighting in national defence or defence of one's honour. 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender,' wrote Ruskin in his famous essay on gender difference Sesame and Lilies (1865). 'His intellect is for...

...book Sesame and Lilies (1865) sketched out these stereotypical, complementary roles of man and woman: The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer and defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention, his energy for adventure, for war and...

...reserving the entire scope of human endeavor for the one, and a little hothouse for the other: Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, 4 8 "I am, and my father was before me, a violent Tory of the old school— Walter Scott's school,...

...sentiments put forward by John Ruskin in 'Of Queen's Gardens', Sesame and Lilies (1865), Section 68: The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender . . . But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle . . . and her intellect is ... for ... sweet...