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Excerpt from Woman's Rights
Sound, as it goes from the bell in the church tower, probably goes in waves and curves. And not in straight lines. Human feeling and thought seem to move in tidal waves, modi fied, doubtless, by the peculiarities of the age. At one time the women of Rome became so discouraged and down-hearted with their con dition, that they committed suicide to such an extent that the Senate, alarmed, passed a de cree that all who should henceforth commit suicide should have their bodies exposed, asked, in the streets. The instincts of modesty came to woman's aid, and there were no more suicides. On the true instincts of the sex I rely, While I speak to the women of my gener. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
