WOMAN

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

WOMAN

IN THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BY S. MARGARET FULLER.

"Frei durch Vernunft, stark durch Gesetze,
Durch Sanftmuth gross, und reich durch Schatze,
Die lange Zeit dein Busen dir verschwieg."

"I meant the day-star should not brighter rise,
Nor lend like influence from its lucent seat;

I meant she should be courteous, facile, sweet,
Free from that solemn vice of greatness, pride;
I meant each softest virtue there should meet,
Fit in that softer bosom to reside;

Only a (heavenward and instructed) soul
I purposed her, that should, with even powers,
The rock, the spindle, and the shears control
Of destiny, and spin her own free hours."

LONDON:

H. G. CLARKE AND CO., 66, OLD BAILEY.

M.D.CCC.XLV.