This Noble Word [women], Spirit-stirring As It Passes Over English Ears, Is In America Banished, And 'ladies' And 'females' Substituted: The One To English Taste Mawkish And Vulgar; The Other Indistinctive And Gross.

-Harriet Martineau

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This Noble Word [women], Spirit-stirring As It

Harriet Martineau

This Noble Word [women], Spirit-stirring As It Passes Over English Ears, Is In America Banished, And 'ladies' And 'females' Substituted: The One To English Taste Mawkish And Vulgar; The Other Indistinctive And Gross.

Topic

America

Female

Noble

If A Test Of Civilization Be Sought, None Can Be So Sure As The Condition Of That Half Of Society Over Which The Other Half Has Power.

Power

Civilization

Half