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Could women be better than men? How do you rate?
alledan
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LONDON (AP) -- A historian in northern England says he has found a 370-year-old book proclaiming that women are better than men, a volume he calls an early voice for women's empowerment.
Alan Davies, heritage officer in Wigan, outside Manchester, said he found the 182-page book under a pile of papers in a town hall vault, where he had been hunting for something else.
The book, called "Woman's Worth," carries the subtitle "A treatise proveinge by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men."
No author's name is given. Davies said the antiquated spellings and writing style and the binding appeared to date the book to the 1630s or '40s.
"Most people think of the women's movement emerging around the start of the 20th century with Emmeline Pankhurst," he said, referring to the suffragette who led the battle for British women's right to vote.
"This book could prove very important. Events might have been brought forward by a few generations if it had been published," he said.
The book's first chapter is titled "Eve more excellent than Adam," and the author goes on to detail the ways in which women are better than men.
"Women do excell men in virtues and rare endowments of the minde, and I think we shall finde that herein also women doe farre outstrip men," the text read, this time using the modern spelling of women.
Subsequent chapter titles include "Women loved Christ more than men," "Women wiser than men" and "Women more valiant than men."
Never ask why but only the value of.
Alan Davies, heritage officer in Wigan, outside Manchester, said he found the 182-page book under a pile of papers in a town hall vault, where he had been hunting for something else.
The book, called "Woman's Worth," carries the subtitle "A treatise proveinge by sundrie reasons that woemen do excell men."
No author's name is given. Davies said the antiquated spellings and writing style and the binding appeared to date the book to the 1630s or '40s.
"Most people think of the women's movement emerging around the start of the 20th century with Emmeline Pankhurst," he said, referring to the suffragette who led the battle for British women's right to vote.
"This book could prove very important. Events might have been brought forward by a few generations if it had been published," he said.
The book's first chapter is titled "Eve more excellent than Adam," and the author goes on to detail the ways in which women are better than men.
"Women do excell men in virtues and rare endowments of the minde, and I think we shall finde that herein also women doe farre outstrip men," the text read, this time using the modern spelling of women.
Subsequent chapter titles include "Women loved Christ more than men," "Women wiser than men" and "Women more valiant than men."
Never ask why but only the value of.
Comments
You mean thoughts like this?
"...generally women are better at shooting than men. They have a lower center of gravity giving them better balance...."
Hope you're able to get out of that 6' hole you just dug for yourself....may you rest in peace
Women shooters that I have observed have more patience and better breath control than their male counterparts....(The politically sensitive Rembrandt)
Edited by - Rembrandt on 04/21/2002 17:36:25
PC=BS
Don't know 'till ya try 'em both.
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Clouder..
We only have a few special years with our children in which they desire our time, attention, and love. After that time is over, it is gone forever, and we will be the ones that desire their time, attention, and love. Make those few, short years count -
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"Benj. Franklin, 1759