The first small vestige of a feeling of obligation in a superior to acknowledge any right in inferiors, began when he had been induced, for convenience, to make some promise to them. by John Stuart Mill 5.00 2 Ratings 27 Want to read 2 Currently reading 2 Have read Overview View 54 Editions Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 1870 Publisher Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Language English Pages 188 Previews available in: English On equality and women's rights. History gives a cruel experience of human nature, in shewing how exactly the regard due to the life, possessions, and entire earthly happiness of any class of persons, was measured by what they had the power of enforcing how all who made any resistance to authorities that had arms in their hands, however dreadful might be the provocation, had not only the law of force but all other laws, and all the notions of social obligation against them and in the eyes of those whom they resisted, were not only guilty of crime, but of the worst of all crimes, deserving the most cruel chastisement which human beings could inflict.

Carefully reasoned and clearly expressed with great logic and consistency, the work remains today a landmark in the. Mething in it to be ashamed of, and no such notion could find a place in the faculties of any person in those ages, except a philosopher or a saint. The renowned and influential essay by the great English philosopher argues for equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations between men and women. When first released, The Subjection of Women was lampooned by conservative critics, who made a mockery of Mill’s principles.

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