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...picture not a problem; nevertheless it sets a question. However strange it may seem to us, the institution of marriage was based on the essential inferiority of women. It was a rational and intelligible basis, and on it marriage remained established. But now we have learnt that women are equal to men, can the came stability be secured...
...uses all the marks of punctuation, learnt in some English course, no doubt, where, however, he can have learnt little else, for he puts a question mark opposite the word "objective" as used in criticism...
...result is that he sees he must do right by the Indian, that he must educate him for a place in our civilization. The century of dishonor, as it has been called, has really been a century of terrible mistakes. Out of those mistakes the country has gradually learnt the only proper and successful way of solving the problem, and that way has been shown to be simply giving the Indian his proper place in our social organization...
...Assemblies" of Al Hariri, selections from which were read last night by Mr. Jewett, although one of the greatest works of Arabic literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought...
...feelings by a series of loud snorts and chuckles, which, under ordinary circumstances, would have been exasperating, but at the time it was simply maddening. I cannot see what business he had to look into the book in the first place; in the second place he should have learnt by this time that mere politeness required gentlemen to control their merriment-when loss of control is out of place and ungentlemanly. I have heard so many complaints on this subject that, a sufferer myself, I thought I would call your attention...