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... Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 375by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Ruskin - 1905 - 680 pages
...receiving from the other what the other only can give. 68. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power 1 [Compare Fort Clavigcra, Letter 80, where Raskin refers to this lecture on women's " power to do... | |
| Stratton Duluth Brooks, Marietta Hubbard - English language - 1905 - 458 pages
...first disconcerting to the Londoner. — Outlook. 3. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....adventure, for war, and for conquest wherever war is iust, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, and her intellect... | |
| William James Dawson - English prose literature - 1906 - 324 pages
...man's fitness for the world, and woman's fitness for the household. They will not care to admit that "man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He...and invention ; his energy for adventure, for war, for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule,... | |
| Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - English language - 1908 - 496 pages
...for ad• venture, for war and he is a conqueror wherever war is just, or if conquest is a necessity. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, and her intellect is not for invention but is creative, for sweet ordering, arrangement and she makes decisions. She sees the qualities of... | |
| John Ruskin - Art - 1909 - 318 pages
...characters are briefly these. The man's poweris active, progressive, defensive. He is emin^nWlhe Uber, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His" intellect...rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not for Tnventiofrof" creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangementj^arid_decision. She sees the qualities... | |
| American essays - 1910 - 520 pages
...receiving from the other what the other only can give, 68. Now their separate characters are briefly these: The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,—and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement,... | |
| Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster - Etiquette - 1910 - 424 pages
...receiving from the other what the other only can give. "Now their separate characters are briefly these. 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... | |
| Evelyn St. Leger - Man-woman relationships - 1912 - 388 pages
...eyes shone. The fruit disappeared in a luscious silence, and they wiped their fingers on the grass. The woman's po-wer is for rule — not for battle . . . and her intellect is ... for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. Her great function is Praise. — Ruskin. . J CHAPTER... | |
| 1914 - 758 pages
...harmony. "The man's power," says Ruskin, "is active, progressive, defensive. He 1s eminently the doer, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for...for battle, and her intellect is not for invention and creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement and decision." Would the world not be better if she... | |
| John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1914 - 334 pages
...from the other what the other only can give.0 68. Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive....war, and for conquest wherever war is just, wherever cor. quest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle, — and her intellect is not... | |
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