“ So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. ”
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women (1869). copy citation
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
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| Source | The Subjection of Women |
| Topic | custom naturality |
| Date | 1869 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27083/27083-h/27083-h.htm |
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“The emancipated serfs and burgesses, even in their most vigorous struggles, never made any pretension to a share of authority; they only demanded more or less of limitation to the power of tyrannizing over them. So true is it that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything [Pg 23] which is usual appears natural. The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural. But how entirely, even in this case, the feeling is dependent on custom, appears by ample experience.”
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