...that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized. 7378 The Subjection of Women The principle which regulates the existing social...one of the chief hindrances to human improvement. 7364 7379 The Subjectlon of Women What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial...

...improve their lot (143). All human beings, of course, except women. The legal subordination of women "is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement" (125), and a principle of equality between men and women will double the mass of mental faculties available...

...modified, has been constantly growing stronger by the progress of reflection and the experience of life: That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two 1 Tennyson, Maud, Fart I, II. 434-5. 2 Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Canto I, II. 356-7....

...women as citizens. More than a century ago John Stuart Mill argued: "That the ptinciple which regulares the existing social relations between the two sexes...improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a ptinciple of perfect equality, admirting no power or ptivilege on the one side, nor disability on the...

...will continue to produce that falseness — with continued tragic consequences. A DEGENDERED SOCIETY? The principle which regulates the existing social...of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and . . . it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on...

...satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Utilitarianism (1861) 1969:212. 22 The principle which regulates the existing social...of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and. . . it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on...

...effectively by John Stuart Mill, who advocated a fundamental change in gender relations by arguing: the principle which regulates the existing social...now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement ... it ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on...

...between persons. Mill's arguments buttress his consistent liberalism with respect to women's rights: That the principle which regulates the existing social...improvement; and that it ought to be replaced by a principle or perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, nor disability on the other....

...the emancipation of women: 'The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the sexes - the legal subordination of one sex to the...one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.' Most of his ideas are now commonly accepted. A list of the causes mixed-ability teaching he espoused...

...was also the author, ten years later, of a book whose opening paragraph contains the memorable lines: The principle which regulates the existing social...two sexes — the legal subordination of one sex to another — is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and . . ....