“[IF] there can be a sign of a society inverted, and of the moral order of the world reversed, it is the putting of woman out of her proper sphere — the domestic life — where she is sovereign, and the putting her in that sphere where she ought never to set her foot — the public life of nations. To put man and woman upon an equality is not to elevate woman, but to degrade her. I trust that the womanhood of England — to say nothing of the Christian conscience which yet remains — will resist, by a stern moral refusal, the immodesty which would thrust women from their private life of dignity and supremacy into the public conflicts of men. This, again, is a part of the lawlessness of these days, and shows a decline of the finer instincts of womanhood, and a loss of that decisive Christian conscience which can distinguish not only between what is right and wrong, but between what is dignified and what is undignified both for women and for men. This clamour about women’s rights may be taken as one of the most subtle and most certain marks of a lawlessness of mind which is now invading society.”

— Henry Edward Manning, The Four Great Evils of the Day, 1871

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Dianne writes:

If he ever saw today’s world…

I believe feminism is the root of most of our ills today.

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