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pression in the harems of Turkey, was to bring 

 home to those minds to a degree never before 

 experienced the peculiar and intensely restricted 

 relationship of woman to the general world, not 

 simply in Eastern harems but throughout the whole 

 of Western civilization at the present day. 



The qualities of the male mind inherited from 

 lower levels of evolution have been ennobled and 

 transmuted at higher levels with enormous effect 

 in the service of civilization. Not so has it been 

 in the case of the mind of woman. The effect of 

 woman's entire education, and of the social training 

 which accompanies it down to the present day in 

 civilization, has been to shut off to an incalculable 

 degree the characteristic and peculiar inherent values 

 of her mind from access to the service of civiliza- 

 tion. The culminating effect in the past of the 

 attitude of civilization to woman even amongst 

 the most advanced peoples has been to incul- 

 cate the doctrine that the only duty which 

 woman owes to the world is that which she owes 

 through those to whom she is related through the 

 sexual bond. Her deeper and more characteristic 

 nature has been prevented as much by Western 

 usage as by Eastern from being released into any 

 other channel than that of her husband and her 

 family 



