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" The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever... "
The Twentieth Century - Page 67
1908
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Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870

Brian Maidment - 2001 - 212 pages
...of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. 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...
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Powers of Diaspora: Two Essays on the Relevance of Jewish Culture

Jonathan Boyarin - 2002 - 218 pages
...passive, and receptive.4" 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," while women "must be enduringly, incorruptibly, good; instinctively, infallibly wise — wise, not...
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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana

Stephanie Newell - 2002 - 260 pages
...possessed hy the other ' , Ruskin writes, and proceeds to enumerate these separate characteristics: 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....and invention; his energy for adventure, for war.'' The woman's intellect, hy contrast, 'is not for invention or creation, hut for sweet ordering, arrangement...
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Literary Culture in Colonial Ghana: 'how to Play the Game of Life'

Stephanie Newell - 2002 - 260 pages
...not possessed by the other', Ruskin writes, and proceeds to enumerate these separate characteristics: 'The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war.'7 The woman's intellect, by contrast, 'is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering,...
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The Victorians: An Age in Retrospect

John Gardiner - 2002 - 332 pages
...from the hustle and bustle of the outside world. As John Ruskin wrote in Sesame and Lilies (1865): 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 not for invention or...
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Gothic: Nineteenth-century Gothic : at home with the vampire

Fred Botting, Dale Townshend - 2004 - 370 pages
...concisely formulating Victorian conventions of sexual difference, provides us with a useful synopsis: "The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest. . . ." Woman, predictably enough, bears a different burden: "She must be enduringly, incorruptibly,...
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Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value

Keith Negus, Michael Pickering - 2004 - 192 pages
...writer on art and architecture. John Ruskin. encapsulated the ideal in his lecture 'Of Queens' Gardens': The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....His intellect is for speculation and invention... [Woman's intellect) is not for invention and creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision....
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John Halifax, Gentleman

Dinah Mulock Craik - 2005 - 600 pages
...of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. 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...
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Shakespeare's Heroines

Anna Murphy Jameson - 2005 - 472 pages
...of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power...for 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...
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Sir Henry Irving: A Victorian Actor and His World

Jeffrey Richards - 2007 - 530 pages
...insisted that the rights and responsibilities were inexorably linked and not to be considered separately. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest is necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, - and her intellect is not for invention...
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