Julia Ward Howe Quotes

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Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearnโ€จ all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
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Julia Ward Howe
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Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonour, nor violence indicate possession.
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Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
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Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?
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I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.
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[The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!
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Mrs. HOWE (Julia Ward)โ€“Wife of Dr. Howe, of Boston, famous as a teacher of the deaf and dumb. This lady is here, giving a course of private lectures, on quaint subjectsโ€”e. g. โ€œmoral triganometry [sic]โ€ alias โ€œpractical ethics.โ€ I dined with her, by special invitation, at Mr. Eamesโ€™โ€”She is a smart, educated, traveled lady, a little touched, โ€˜tis thought, with strong-mindedness. Complacent, and well satisfied with her peculiar theories.
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Howard K. Beale (The Diary of Edward Bates 1859-1866)
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The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.[9] St Andrew's Methodist Church now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine.[10] Her campaign to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Ann Jarvis had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War, and created Mother's Day Work Clubs to address public health issues. She and another peace activist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe had been urging for the creation of a Motherโ€™s Day dedicated to peace. 40 years before it became an official holiday, Ward Howe had made her Motherโ€™s Day Proclamation in 1870, which called upon mothers of all nationalities to band together to promote the โ€œamicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.โ€[11] Anna Jarvis wanted to honor this and to set aside a day to honor all mothers because she believed a mother is "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world" Ghb๊ตฌ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…,Ghb ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํšจ๋Šฅ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,ghb๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋งค์ฒ˜,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ”์•„์š” ์นดํ†กใ€AKR331ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘์œ„์ปคใ€SPR705ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆใ€GEM705ใ€‘ ์ฒซ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๋ถ„๋“ค ์‹ค๋ ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘์ง€์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹จํ•˜๋‚˜ ํŒ๋งค๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋”์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” *๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์ด๋ž€ ์•Œ๊ณ ์‹ถ์ฃ ? ์•ก์ฒด ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ˆ  ๋“ฑ์— ํƒ€์„œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์†์นญ '๋ฌผ๋ฝ•'์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋Ÿ‰ ๋ณต์šฉ์‹œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์ด ๋Š๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฆ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํฅ๋ถ„์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์ผ์œผ์ผœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ Š์€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์†์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•ด '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์‹œ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์•ฝ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์˜ '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ดํ”„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ(date rape drug)'๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋“ฑ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” GHB๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ž‘์—…์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ค‘์—์„œ ๋ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 2013๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญFDA์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ๋ฐ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•(GHB)์•ฝ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ด์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ›„ 30๋ถ„์•ˆ์— ์•ฝํšจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ 6~7์‹œ๊ฐ„์ •๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ชธ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์ฆ˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ๋•€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ถ€ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ฒญ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค 2๋ฒˆ์˜์žฌํŒ๋์— ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋‹น๊ตญ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋„ ์–ป์„์ˆ˜์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ• ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 30๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ข‹์•„์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ํ‰์†Œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ํ„ฐ์น˜๋‚˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๊ทธ๋…€๋‹ต์ง€์•Š์€ ์Šคํ‚จ์‰ฝ์œผ๋กœ 30๋ถ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ ์•ฝ๋ฐœ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค๊ฒŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์„ฑ์˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ง„ํ’ˆ์„์‚ด๋•Œ๋งŒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ์นดํ†กใ€AKR331ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€SPR331ใ€‘์œ„์ปคใ€SPR705ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆใ€GEM705ใ€‘๋กœ ๋ฌธ์˜์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day". However, owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday (the first being West Virginia, Jarvis' home state, in 1910). In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
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Amazing Graceโ€ Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. โ€™Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, And grace my fears relieved; How precious did that grace appear, The hour I first believed. Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; โ€™Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me, His Word my hope secures; He will my Shield and Portion be, As long as life endures. Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail, And mortal life shall cease, I shall possess, within the veil, A life of joy and peace. The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, The sun forbear to shine; But God, who called me here below, Will be forever mine. When weโ€™ve been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, Weโ€™ve no less days to sing Godโ€™s praise, Than when weโ€™d first begun. Lyrics by John Newton, 1779 โ€œSwing Low, Sweet Chariotโ€ (Chorus) Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home. Swing low, sweet chariot, Coming for to carry me home. I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? (Coming for to carry me home) A band of angels coming after me. (Coming for to carry me home) (Chorus) If you get there before I do, (Coming for to carry me home) Tell all of my friends, that I'm coming there too. (Coming for to carry me home) (Chorus) Traditional lyrics Wallis Willis, circa 1865 โ€œBattle Hymn of the Republicโ€ Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on. (Chorus) Glory, Glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps, They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps; I can read His righteous sentence in the dim and flaring lamps: His day is marching on. (Chorus) I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal"; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on. (Chorus) He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. (Chorus) In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me. As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on. Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe, 1861
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Dyrk Ashton (Wrath of Gods (The Paternus Trilogy, #2))
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This terrible development of moral causes and effects will enchain the wonder of the world until the crisis of poetical justice which must end it shall have won the acquiescence of mankind, carrying its irresistible lesson into the mind of the critics, into the heart of the multitude.
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Laura E. Richards and Maud Howe Elliott (Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 V1)
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In short, why am I not regarded by the law as a soul, responsible for my acts to God and humanity, and not as a mere body, devoted to the unreasoning service of my husband?" The state gives no answer, and the champions of her policy evince wisdom in imitating her silence.
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Margaret Fuller (The Complete Works of Margaret Fuller: Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Summer on the Lakes in 1843, Essays, Memoirs, Reviews, Narratives, Poems & Biography by Julia Ward Howe)
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The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.[9] St Andrew's Methodist Church now holds the International Mother's Day Shrine.[10] Her campaign to make Mother's Day a recognized holiday in the United States began in 1905, the year her mother, Ann Reeves Jarvis, died. Ann Jarvis had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War, and created Mother's Day Work Clubs to address public health issues. She and another peace activist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe had been urging for the creation of a Motherโ€™s Day dedicated to peace. 40 years before it became an official holiday, Ward Howe had made her Motherโ€™s Day Proclamation in 1870, which called upon mothers of all nationalities to band together to promote the โ€œamicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace.โ€[11] Anna Jarvis wanted to honor this and to set aside a day to honor all mothers because she believed a mother is "the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world" Ghb๊ตฌ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ์ž…,Ghb ๊ตฌ์ž…๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ๋งค,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํšจ๋Šฅ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•๊ตฌ๋งค๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•,ghb๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ,๋ฌผ๋ฝ•ํŒ๋งค์ฒ˜,์ˆ˜๋ฉด์ œํŒ”์•„์š” ๊นŒํ†กใ€pak6ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆ:ใ€JRJR331ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆ:ใ€TTZZZ6ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€TTZZ6ใ€‘ ์ฒซ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š”๋ถ„๋“ค ์‹ค๋ ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ณ„๋กœ ๋ฐ˜๊ฐ‘์ง€์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ๋‹จํ•˜๋‚˜ ํŒ๋งค๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ „์€ ๋”์ค‘์š”ํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š” *๋ฌผ๋ฝ•์ด๋ž€ ์•Œ๊ณ ์‹ถ์ฃ ? ์•ก์ฒด ์ƒํƒœ๋กœ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ์ด๋‚˜ ์ˆ  ๋“ฑ์— ํƒ€์„œ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์†์นญ '๋ฌผ๋ฝ•'์œผ๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฐ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋Ÿ‰ ๋ณต์šฉ์‹œ ํ•„๋ฆ„์ด ๋Š๊ธฐ๋Š” ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฆ์„ธ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ•ํ•œ ํฅ๋ถ„์ž‘์šฉ์„ ์ผ์œผ์ผœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ Š์€ ์ฒญ์†Œ๋…„๋“ค์†์—์„œ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์ด์šฉํ•ด '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ์‹œ ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„ํ•  ๋•Œ ์“ฐ๋Š” ์•ฝ'์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๋œป์˜ '๋ฐ์ดํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ดํ”„ ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ๊ทธ(date rape drug)'๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋“ฑ ์ผ๋ถ€ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์—์„œ๋Š” GHB๊ฐ€ ๊ณต์‹์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ์„ฑ์ž‘์—…์šฉ์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ์ค‘์—์„œ ๋ฐ€๊ฑฐ๋ž˜ ๋˜๊ณ ์žˆ๋‹ค ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋Š” 2013๋…„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญFDA์—์„œ ๋ฐœํ‘œํ•œ๋ฐ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋ฒ•์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฌผ๋ฝ•(GHB)์•ฝ๋ฌผ์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๊ธˆ์ง€ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค ์ด์œ ๋Š” ์ด์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ›„ 30๋ถ„์•ˆ์— ์•ฝํšจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ 6~7์‹œ๊ฐ„์ •๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋ชธ๋ฐ–์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์ฆ˜์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ๋•€์œผ๋กœ ์ „๋ถ€ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค ํ•œ๋ฒˆ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์–ด๋–ค์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๊ฐ•๊ฐ„์„ ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ฒญ์— ์‹ ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค 2๋ฒˆ์˜์žฌํŒ๋์— ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋‹น๊ตญ๊ณผ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์€ ์•„๋ฌด๋Ÿฐ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋„ ์–ป์„์ˆ˜์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค ๋‚จ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๋‚˜ ํ˜น์€ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด ๋ณต์šฉํ• ๊ฒฝ์šฐ 30๋ถ„์ด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์ด ์ข‹์•„์ง€๋ฉด์„œ ํ‰์†Œ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ํ„ฐ์น˜๋‚˜ ๋‚จ์„ฑ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋˜ ์—ฌ์„ฑ๋ถ„์ด๊ทธ๋…€๋‹ต์ง€์•Š์€ ์Šคํ‚จ์‰ฝ์œผ๋กœ 30๋ถ„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์„œ ์•ฝ๋ฐœ์ด ์˜ค๋ฅด๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ž‘์—…์„ ๊ฑธ์–ด๋„ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋น ์ ธ๋“ค๊ฒŒํ•˜๋Š” ๋งˆ์„ฑ์˜ ์•ฝ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ๋„ ์ง„ํ’ˆ์„์‚ด๋•Œ๋งŒ์ด ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋Š”๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค. ๋”๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ๊ฒƒ์ด ์žˆ์œผ์‹œ๋ฉด ๊นŒํ†กใ€pak6ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆ:ใ€JRJR331ใ€‘ํ…”๋ ˆ:ใ€TTZZZ6ใ€‘๋ผ์ธใ€TTZZ6ใ€‘๋กœ ๋ฌธ์˜์ฃผ์„ธ์š”. In 1908, the U.S. Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an official holiday, joking that they would also have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day". However, owing to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all U.S. states observed the holiday, with some of them officially recognizing Mother's Day as a local holiday (the first being West Virginia, Jarvis' home state, in 1910). In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers.
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What Julia Ward Howe had in mind in 1870 when she invented Motherโ€™s Day for Peace was a day on which we oppose war and advance peace.
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Gloria Steinem (The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion)
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I sometimes feel as if words could not express the comfort and instruction which have come to me in the later years of my life from two sources. One of these has been the better acquaintance with my own sex; the other, the experience of the power resulting from associated action in behalf of worthy objects. During the first two thirds of my life I looked to the masculine ideal of character as the only true one. I sought its inspiration, and referred my merits and demerits to its judicial verdict. In an unexpected hour a new light came to me, showing me a world of thought and of character quite beyond the limits within which I had hitherto been content to abide. The new domain now made clear to me was that of true womanhood,โ€”woman no longer in her ancillary relation to her opposite, man, but in her direct relation to the divine plan and purpose, as a free agent, fully sharing with man every human right and every human responsibility. This discovery was like the addition of a new continent to the map of the world, or of a new testament to the old ordinances.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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Many years after this time I visited the public cemetery in Florence, and stood before the simple granite cross which marks the resting-place of this great apostle of freedom. I found it adorned with plants and vines which had evidently been brought from his native land. A dear friend of his, Mrs. Sarah Shaw Russell, had said to me of this spot, "It looks like a piece of New England." And I thought how this piece of New England belonged to the world.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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We made some stay in Paris, of which city I have chronicled elsewhere my first impressions. Among these was the pain of hearing a lecture from Philarรจte Chasles, in which he spoke most disparagingly of American literature, and of our country in general. He said that we had contributed nothing of value to the world of letters. Yet we had already given it the writings of Irving, Hawthorne, Emerson, Longfellow, Bryant, and Poe. It is true that these authors were little, if at all, known in France at that time; but the speaker, proposing to instruct the public, ought to have informed himself concerning that whereof he assumed to speak with knowledge.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences, 1819-1899)
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Dr. Howe attended one of the official receptions of M. Guizot, who was prime minister at this time. I tried to persuade him to wear the decorations given him by the Greek government in recognition of his services in the Greek revolution, but he refused to do so, thinking such ornaments unfitting a republican. I had the pleasure of witnessing one of the last performances of the celebrated danseuse, Madame Taglioni. She it was of whom one of the same profession said, "Nous autres, nous sautons et nous tombons, mais elle monte et elle descend." The ballet was "La Sylphide," in which she had achieved one of her earliest triumphs. Remembering this, Dr. Howe found her somewhat changed for the worse. I admired her very much, and her dancing appeared to me characterized by a perfection and finish which placed her beyond competition with more recent favorites.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences, 1819-1899)
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I had early acquired some knowledge of Latin, and in later life found great pleasure in reading the essays and Tusculan dissertations of Cicero. The view of ethics represented in these writings sometimes appeared to me of higher tone than the current morality of Christendom, and I rejoiced in the thought that, even in the Rome of the pre-Christian Cรฆsars, God had not left himself without a witness. This enlarged notion of the ethical history of mankind might easily lead one in life's novitiate to underestimate the comparative value of the usually accepted traditions. I confess that I, personally, did not escape this error, which I haveseen largely prevalent among studious people of my own time. Who can say what joy there is in the rehabilitation of human nature, which is one essential condition of the liberal Christian faith? I had been trained to think that all mankind were by nature low, vile, and wicked. Only a chosen few, by a rare and difficult spiritual operation, could be rescued from the doom of a perpetual dwelling with the enemies of God, a perpetual participation in the torments "prepared for them from the beginning of the world." The rapture of this new freedom, of this enlarged brotherhood, which made all men akin to the Divine Father of all, every religion, however ignorant, the expression of a sincere and availing worship, might well produce in a neophyte an exhilaration bordering upon ecstasy. The exclusive doctrine which had made Christianity, and special forms of it, the only way of spiritual redemption, now appeared to me to commend itself as little to human reason as to human affection. I felt that we could not rightly honor our dear Christ by immolating at his shrine the souls of myriads of our fellows born under the widely diverse influences which could not be thought of as existing unwilled by the supreme Providence.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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If I may sum up in one term the leading bent of my life, I will simply call myself a student. Dr. Howe used to say of me: "Mrs. Howe is not a great reader, but she always studies." Albeit my intellectual pursuits have always been such as to task my mind, I cannot boast that I have acquired much in the way of technical erudition. I have only drawn from history and philosophy some understanding of human life, some lessons in the value of thought for thought's sake, and, above all, a sense of the dignity of character above every other dignity. Goethe chose well for his motto the words:โ€” "Die Zeit ist mein Vermรคchtniss, mein Acker ist die Zeit." "Time is my inheritance; time is my estate." But I may choose this for mine:โ€” "I have followed the great masters with my heart.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences, 1819-1899)
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So ends this arduous but pleasant episode of my peace crusade. I will only mention one feature more in connection with it. I had desired to institute a festival which should be observed as mothers' day, and which should be devoted to the advocacy of peace doctrines. I chose for this the second day of June, this being a time when flowers are abundant, and when the weather usually allows of open-air meetings. I had some success in carrying out this plan. In Boston I held the Mothers' Day meeting for quite a number of years. The day was also observed in other places, once or twice in Constantinople, and often in places nearer home. My heart was gladdened, this last year, by learning from a friend that a peace association in Philadelphia still celebrates Mothers' Day.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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Our second visit to England, in the autumn of the year 1844, on the way back to our own country, was less brilliant and novel than our first, but scarcely less in interest. We had received several invitations to visit friends at their country residences, and these opened to us the most delightful aspect of English hospitality. The English are nowhere so much at home as in the country, and they willingly make their visitors at home also.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences, 1819-1899)
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Of Mr. Phillips I must say that I at first regarded him through the same veil of prejudice which had caused me so greatly to misconceive the character of Mr. Garrison. I was a little softened by hearing that at one of the bazaars he had purchased a copy of my first volume of poems, with the remark, "She doesn't like me, but I like her poetry." This naturally led me to suppose that he must have some redeeming traits of character. I had not then heard him speak, and I did not wish to hear him; but I met him, also, at one of the Parker Sunday evenings, and, after a pleasant episode of conversation, I found myself constrained to take him out of my chamber of dislikes.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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I recall now a scene in Tremont Temple just before the breaking out of our civil war. An anti-slavery meeting had been announced, and a scheme had been devised to break it up. As I entered I met Mrs. Chapman, who said, "These are times in which anti-slavery people must stand by each other." On the platform were seated a number of the prominent abolitionists. Mr. Phillips was to be the second speaker, but when he stepped forward to address the meeting a perfect hubbub arose in the gallery. Shrieks, howls, and catcalls resounded. Again and again the great orator essayed to speak. Again and again his voice was drowned by the general uproar. I sat near enough to hear him say, with a smile, "Those boys in the gallery will soon tire themselves out." And so, indeed, it befell. After a delay which appeared to some of us endless, the noise subsided, and Wendell Phillips, still in the glory of his strength and manly beauty, stood up before the house, and soon held all present spellbound by the magic of his speech. The clear silver ring of his voice carried conviction with it. From head to foot, he seemed aflame with the passion of his convictions. He used the simplest English, and spoke with such distinctness that his lowest tones, almost a whisper, could be heard throughout the large hall. Yerrinton, the only man who could report Wendell Phillips's speeches, once told my husband that it was like reporting chain lightning. On the occasion of which I speak, the unruly element was quieted once for all, and the further proceedings of the meeting suffered no interruption. The mob, however, did not at once abandon its intention of doing violence to the great advocate. Soon after the time just mentioned Dr. Howe attended an evening meeting, at the close of which a crowd of rough men gathered outside the public entrance, waiting for Phillips to appear, with ugly threats of the treatment which he should receive at their hands. The doors presently opened, and Phillips came forth, walking calmly between Mrs. Chapman and Lydia Maria Child. Not a hand was raised, not a threat was uttered. The crowd gave way in silence, and the two brave women parted from Phillips at the door of his own house. My husband spoke of this as one of the most impressive sights that he had ever witnessed. His report of it moved me to send word to Mr. Phillips that, in case of any recurrence of such a disturbance, I should be proud to join his body-guard.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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It has been explained that the continued prosperity of France under very varying forms of government is due to the fact that the municipal administration of the country is not affected by these changes, but continues much the same under king, emperor, and republican president. I find something analogous to this in the perseverance of certain underlying tendencies in society despite the continual variations which diversify the surface of the domain of Fashion.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences, 1819-1899, by Julia Ward Howe. 1899 [Leather Bound])
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I remember moments in which the enlargement of my horizon of thought and of faith became strongly sensible to me, in the quiet of my reading, in my own room. A certain essay in the "Wandsbecker Bote" of Matthias Claudius ends thus: "And is he not also the God of the Japanese?" Foolish as it may appear, it had never struck me before that the God whom I had been taught to worship was the God of any peoples outside the limits of Judaism and Christendom. The suggestion shocked me at first, but, later on, gave me much satisfaction. Another such moment I recall when, having carefully read "Paradise Lost" to the very end, I saw presented before me the picture of an eternal evil, of Satan and his ministers subjugated indeed by God, but not conquered, and able to maintain against Him an opposition as eternal as his goodness. This appeared to me impossible, and I threw away, once and forever, the thought of the terrible hell which till then had always formed part of my belief. In its place, I cherished the persuasion that the victory of goodness must consist in making everything good, and that Satan himself could have no shield strong enough to resist permanently the divine power of the divine spirit. This was a great emancipation for me, and I soon welcomed with joy every evidence in literature which tended to show that religion has never been confined to the experience of a particular race or nation, but has shown itself at all times, and under every variety of form, as a seeking for the divine and a reverence for the things unseen. So much for study!
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)
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All of these occasions gave me unmitigated delight, but the crowning ecstasy of all I found in the ballet. Fanny Elssler and Cerito were both upon the stage. The former had lost a little of her prestige, but Cerito, an Italian, was then in her first bloom and wonderfully graceful. Of her performance my sister said to me, "It seems to make us better to see anything so beautiful." This remark recalls the oft-quoted dialogue between Margaret Fuller and Emerson apropos of Fanny Elssler's dancing:โ€” "Margaret, this is poetry." "Waldo, this is religion." I remember, years after this time, a talk with Theodore Parker, in which I suggested that the best stage dancing gives us the classic in a fluent form, with the illumination of life and personality. I cannot recall, in the dances which I saw during that season, anything which appeared to me sensual or even sensuous. It was rather the very ecstasy and embodiment of grace.
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Julia Ward Howe (Reminiscences 1819 - 1899)