ISBN: 9780217079488

Ed Sylvanus Urban, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Gentlemans-Magazine~~Ed-Sylvanus-Urban General Books LLC Purchase of this book incl… Mehr…

Ed Sylvanus Urban, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books History~~General Gentlemans-Magazine~~Ed-Sylvanus-Urban General Books LLC Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BOOKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING. NOW two beings lived in one world. And the name of the one was Man; and the name of the other, Woman. And writers by the battalion came along and inspected the two. And they said, " Lo ! Man is a normal type; there is nothing strange about him. He offers no field for investigation. Woman is a sport. We are not sure that she is not a fabulous monster. Assuredly there is much copy to be made out of this extraordinary creature. Let us therefore devote our attention to Woman." And they did. They pulled her into little bits, they moralised about her, they ran her down, they cracked her up, they stuck epigrams into her till her name became a weariness to the flesh of them that read; and they fled to treasure- islands and wolf caverns, if haply for a season they might forget her and find amusement. And there appeared on the scene a young editor?a Mere Boy. And he made oration to the writers, who were mostly engaged with incorrect monographs, of the most entire cock- sureness, on the usual subject; and to the readers, who were all crying out for something new. And he said, " You are a set of blatant idiots. You have spilt ink and blood about Woman for several thousand years, and you are not greatly nearer the solving of her riddle than when you began. I, myself, have tried my hand at her, and have done vastly better than most of you; because I acknowledged that I should never know more than a very little of her life. She is not the only section of humanity worth studying. I have lived and toiled with Men. I speak of what I know. Listen to me, and you shall hear, not realism, but reality. I will show you such defiant courage, such dogged endurance, such savagery, such chivalry, such piteousness as you know not of. I will draw for you the lives of your co...<

ISBN: 9780217079488

Ed Sylvanus Urban, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, History~~General, Gentlemans-Magazine~~Ed-Sylvanus-Urban, 999999999, The Gentleman's Magazine (Volu… Mehr…

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