In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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In Defense of Women
by H. L. Mencken Contents Introduction I The Feminine Mind II The War between The Sexes III Marriage IV Woman Suffrage V The New Age Introduction As a professional critic of life and letters, my principal business in the world is that of manufacturing platitudes for tomorrow, which is to say, ideas so novel that they will be instantly rejected as insane and outrageous by all right thinking men, and so apposite and sound that they will eventually conquer that instinctive opposition, and force themselves into the traditional wisdom of the race. I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday, with new labels stuck rakishly upon them. This borrowing and |
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