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Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)

Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 130

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e expanded till a return to the chrysalis is impossible. It is true that a very large number yet profess to believe that a womanfulfills her whole mission in the world when she makes herself as pretty andagreeable as possible, and devotes all her time and attention to the dischargeof domestic… … 120 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY subjection to her husband. Two things have tended to bring about thismodification of opinion; the broader education and increased opportunitiesfor development attendant upon the growth of individual liberty and repub-lican forms of government; and the…

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