Reason is indeed the heaven-lighted lamp inman, and may safely be trusted when not entirely depended on; but when it pretends to discover what isbeyond its ken, it certainly stretches the line too far, and runs into absurdity.
very kantian...
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It is the fashion now for young men to be deists. And many a one has improper books sent adrift in a sea ofdoubts—of which there is no end. This is not a land of certainty; there is no confining the wandering reason,and but one clue to prevent its being lost in endless researches
get wrecked
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How pleasing it is to be attended with a smile of willingness, to be consulted when theyare at a loss, and looked up to as a friend and benefactor when they are in distress.
isn't this "art"?
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HE management of servants is a great part of the employment of a woman's life; and her own temperdepends very much on her behaviour to them
of a rich woman's life...
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S every kind of domestic concern and family business is properly a woman's province, to enable her todischarge her duty she should study the different branches of it.
emphasize, economics
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If they have a tolerable understanding, it has a chance to becultivated. They are forced to see human nature as it is, and are not left to dwell on the pictures of their ownimaginations. Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with theworld; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is nottaught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross andnarrow her mind! "Cunning fills up the mighty void of sense," and cares, which do not improve the heart orunderstanding, take up her attention. Of course, she falls a prey to childish anger, and silly capricious humors,which render her rather insignificant than vicious.
productive/reproductive labor
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Those who are termed good-humored, are frequentlygiddy, indolent, and insensible; yet because the society they mix with appear seldom displeased with a personwho does not contest, and will laugh off an affront, they imagine themselves pleasing, when they are only notdisagreeable.
damn too real Mary
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Writing may be termed a fine art; and, I am sure, it is a very useful one. The style in particular deservesattention. Young people are very apt to substitute words for sentiments, and clothe mean thoughts in pompousdiction. Industry and time are necessary to cure this, and will often do it. Children should be led intocorrespondences, and methods adopted to make them write down their sentiments, and they should beprevailed on to relate the stories they have read in their own words. Writing well is of great consequence in lifeas to our temporal interest and of still more to the mind; as it teaches a person to arrange their thoughts anddigest them. Besides, it forms the only true basis of rational and elegant conversation.
journaling & letters = good
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We laugh at the Hottentots, and in some things adopt theircustoms.
South African nation, racial term
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S I conceive it to be the duty of every rational creature to attend to its offspring, I am sorry to observe,that reason and duty together have not so powerful an influence over human conduct, as instinct has inthe brute creation.
virtue discussion i was thinking about later
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hatever tends to make a person in somemeasure independent of the senses, is a prop to virtue. Amusing employments must first occupy the mind; andas an attention to moral duties leads to piety, so whoever weighs one subject will turn to others, and new ideaswill rush into the mind. The faculties will be exercised, and not suffered to sleep, which will give a variety tothe character.
learning, virtue, stuff about make-up later on
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In the article of dress may be included the whole tribe of beauty-washes, cosmetics, Olympian dew, orientalherbs, liquid bloom, and the paint which enlivened Ninon’s face, and bid defiance to time
ancient beauty products
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She isnot solicitous to act a part; her endeavour is not to hide; but correct her failings, and her face has of course thatbeauty, which an attention to the mind only gives. I never knew a person really ugly, who was not foolish orvicious; and I have seen the most beautiful features deformed by passion and vice. It is true, regular featuresstrike at first; but it is a well ordered mind which occasions those turns of expression in the countenance,which make a lasting impression.
speak girl
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and condescension to inferiors
emphasize
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I am quite charmed when I see asweet young creature, shrinking as it were from observation, and listening rather than talking. It is possible agirl may have this manner without having a very good understanding. If it should be so, this diffidenceprevents her from being troublesome.
lmao
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In the nursery too, they are taught to speak; and there they not only hear nonsense, but that nonsense retailedout in such silly, affected tones, as must disgust;
spongebob
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- Jul 2022
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page 22 - if you're a woman you're dispropotionately more likely to be a smaller farmer
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page 16 - organic sales as % of total sales it also skyrocketed for the >= 1 million category
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page 15 - organic farming, small farmers decreased but medium to large farmers skyrocketed
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page 121 about her composing verses "Because the art is not to blame for its evil use but the one who professes evil and debases it, making it a snare of the devil; and this occurs in all the arts and sciences."
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page 120 "The other, in the Convent de la Concepcion, was so accustomed to reading the epistles of my father Saint Jerome, as well as the saint's words, that Arce says: I thought I heard Jerome himself, speaking in Spanish. And about her he says that he learned, after her death, that she had translated the epistles into Spanish; and it pains him that talents like these had not been used in greater studies with philosophical principles"
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page 119 "nor did I criticize in any way the Society of Jesus;" she just criticized Vieria
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page 119 "If my crime lies in the Athenagoric Letter, did that do more than simply refer to my opinion with all the reverence I owe to our Holy Mother Church? If she, with her most holy authority, does not forbit me to do so, why should others?"
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page 116 "Moreover, the prohibition came at a time when, as Eusebius indicates, in the early Church women would teach one another doctrine in the temples, and this sound caused some confusion when the Apostles preached; that is why they were ordered to be silent, as occurs now, when one does not pray aloud while the preacher delivers his sermon
There is no doubt that to understand many passages of divine letters, one needs to know a good deal about the history, customs, ceremonies, proverbs, and even modes of speech of the times when they were written in order to comprehend the references and allusions of certain languages"
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page 116 about the immodest dangers of men teaching girls/women "Everyone knows this is true; even so, it is allowed only because of the lack of educated older women; therefore, not having them does great harm."
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"sword in the hands of a madman"
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page 113 "A wise man said that the man who does not know Latin is not a complete fool, but the one who does is qualified to be one. And I would like to add that a fool becomes perfect (if foolishness can reach perfection) by studying his bit of philosophy and theology and having some idea of languages, making him a fool in many sciences and many languages, because a great fool cannot be contained in his mother tongue alone."
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page 113 hold women to the same standard as men when it comes to teaching. those with the virtue & talent & temperament for it should do it.
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page 113 cites Doctor Arce who talks about the same Apostle in Titus saying "The aged women likewise, that they be in behavior as becometh holiness ... teachers of good things"
conclusion is not to speak from a pulpit or teach from a professor's chair
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page 110-112
doing the same tactic of listing out famous and learned women
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page 110 "If these, senora, are merits (I see them celebrated as such in men), they would not be so in me, because I act out of necessity. If they are blameworthy, for the same reason I believe I am not a fault; nonetheless, I am so wary of myself that in this or anything else I do not trust my own judgment; and so I remit the decision to your sovereign talent, submitting to whatever sentence you may impose, without contradiction or opposition, for this has been no more than a simple narration of my inclination toward letters"
(so dont praise her or persecute her because she is just abiding by her nature)
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page 109-110 "but, senora, what can we women know but kitchen philosophies? As Lupercio Leonardo so wisely said, one can philosophize very well and prepare supper. And seeing these minor details, I say that if Aristotle had cooked, he would have written a great deal more."
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page 109 "And what could I tell you, senora, about the natural secrets I have discovered when cooking? Seeing that an egg sets and fries in butter or oil but falls apart in syrup"
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page 109 "I notice everything in this manner and always have and have no control over it; in fact it tends to annoy me, for it wearies my head; I thought this, and composing verses, happened to everyone, until experience showed me the contrary; and this is so much my character or custom that I see nothing without considering it further."
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page 108 re: being forbidden to study "This once was achieved by a very saintly, very ingenuous mother superior who believe that study was a matter for the Inquisition and ordered me to stop. I obeyed (for the three months her power to command lasted) in that I did not pick up a book, but not studying at all, which is not in my power, I could not do,because although I did not study books, I studied all the things God created, and these were my letters, and my book was the entire mechanism of the universe. I saw nothing without reflecting on it, heard nothing without considering it, even the smallest material things, for there is no create, no matter how low, in which one does not recognize God created me (og.) none that does not astonish the understanding, if one considers it as a one should. And so"
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page 104-108 extended retelling of Christ's life and persecution
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page 108, Peter "as a result of being known as an ignorant man [because he denied Christ], he did not have the good fortune of a wise man but only the afflictions"
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page 106 - bad ass lines about Christ's crown of thorns
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page 105 "no man confesses that another understands more, because that is the consequence of being more"
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page 105 re: Pharisees persecuting Jesus "but to give as a reason that He performed miracles does not seem worthy of learned men, which the Pharisees were. And so it is that when learned men are overcome by passion, they spew forth these kind of irrelevancies."
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page 104 Machiavelli reference, another way that the Spanish Inquisition is important to understand in context of this reading.
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pg 104 literally compares herself to Jesus lmao but when you're fighting for your life...
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page 103 "In truth, senora, at times I begin to think that the one who excels -- or is made to excel by God, Who alone can effect this -- is received as a common enemy, because it seems to some that this person usurps the applause they deserve or blocks the admiration to which they aspire, and so they persecute this person."
"That politically barbarous law of Athens, by which whoever excelled in gifts and virtues was exiled from the republic to keep him from tyrannizing public liberty with those gifts, still endures and is still observed in our day, although the motive of the Athenians no longer exists; but there is another one, no less effective although not as well founded, for it seems a maxim of the impious Machiavelli, and that is to despise the one who excels because that person discredits others. This occurs, and has always occurred."
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page 103 right after that long bit she says, "in truth senora" hehehehehe we do a little trolling
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page 103 "Who would not think, seeing the widespread acclaim I have received, that I sailed calm seas with the wind behind me, surrounded by the applause of general approbation? But God knows it has not been so, because among the flowers of these same acclamations more serpents than I can count of rivalries and persecutions have arisen and awakened, and the most noxious and hurtful to me have not been those who persecuted me with open hatred and malice but those who, loving me and desiring my welfare (and perhaps deserving a great deal from God for their good intentions), mortified and tormented me more than the others, saying: "Her studies are not in accord with holy ignorance; she will be surely be lose and at such heights her own perspicacity and wit are bound make her vain."
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page 102 "it is necessary not only to accept the intrusion but be grateful for the damage done."
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pg 101 "This is not an excuse for having studied a diversity of subjects, nor do I offer it as such, for these subjects contribute to one another, but my not having benefitted from them has been the fault of my ineptitude and the weakness in my understanding, not of their variety."
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page 101 "In short it is the book that encompasses all books, and the science that includes all sciences, which are useful for its understanding: even after learning all of them (which clearly is not easy, or even possible) like Kant thinks!!!
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page 101 "the person who is divided among various exercises can never achieve perfection;but the opposite happens in formal and speculative areas, and I would like to persuade everyone with my experience that this not only does not interfere but helps, for oe subject illuminates and opens a path in another by means of variations and hidden connections - placed in this universal chain by the wisdom of its Author - so that it seems they correspond and are joined with admirable unity and harmony."
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page 100 "how was I to have the courage to write" also isnt here writing teaching???
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page mid 98- mid 99 examples of how learning can make you better appreciate God,
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page 98 she sees studying profane things as a way to more closely understand the Divine Mysteries, and that she also has an obligation to study as a nun of Saint Jerome's order.
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page 97 she denied her inclination towards reading for awhile but then discovered the less she readthe more it reared up inside of her
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page 95 "God has favored me with a great love of the truth... ever since the first light of reason struck me, my inclination toward letters has been so strong and powerful that neither the reprimands of others - I have had many - nor my own reflections - I have engaged in more than a few - have sufficied to make me abandon this natural impulse that God has placed in me"
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page 94 profane subjects are "punished not by the Holy Office but by the prudent with laughter and the critics with condemnation; and this, just or unjust, there is no reason to fear it, for one can still take Communion and hear Mass and therefore it concerns me very little or not at all."
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page 94 "Seneca says: In the early years, faith is not bright. Then how would I dare hold it in my unworthy hands, when it is in conflict with my sex, my age, and especially my customs?" so she "admits" her sex is a problem
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page 94 can't read Genesis b4 you're thirty because of its "obscurity" and Song of Solomon because a youth might not understood the spiritual sigifnicance of the carnal metaphors at first.
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page 92 "it is understood that being silent does not mean having nothing to say, but that the great deal there is to say cannot be said in words. Saint John says that if all the miracles performed by Our Redeemer were to be written down, the entire world could not hold the books."
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The second bit is from Sor Juana in reply to the Bishop's letter
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The first bit is from the Bishop to Sor Juana
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page 90 "I am very certain that if Your Grace, with the keen rationality of your understanding, were to form and depict an idea of divine perfections (whatever the dark shadows of faith allow)" so she does think theres a serious limit to what we can learn about Heaven/divine affairs
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page 89 "it is a pity when so great an understanding becomes so immersed in base earthly matters that it does not wish to penetrate what occurs in Heaven" interesting that she considers we have the ability to penetrate heaven
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page 89 "The angels whipped Saint Jerome because he read Cicero...as he preferred the delight of his eloquence to the solidity of Holy Scripture; yet it is to be commended that the Holy Doctor made use of the facts and profane erudition obtained from such authors"
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pg 88 "knowledge that does not come from the Crucified God is foolishness and mere vanity" said Justus Lipsius a very erudite man
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page 88 Egyptian knowledge is the best yet, "for all their learning merely penetrated the movements of the stars and the heavens but could not rein in the disorder of their passions all their knowledge was devoted to perfecting man in his political life but did not enlighten him on how to attain the life eternal."
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pg 88 "God does not want letters that give rise to presumption in woman, but the Apostle does not censure letters unless they remove woman from a state of obedience."
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A similar process saw the Cuban Constitution of 2018 drawn up. The National Assembly approved a draft constitution mid-year, and copies were printed and distributed throughout the country over the following months for study. Tens of thousands of citizens facilitated community discussion, in order to solicit feedback and criticism of the new document. For months, meetings were held and the popular will taken into account in producing a new draft of the constitution. How often do the masses of American workers and oppressed people enjoy mass mobilizations to so directly determine such important political changes?
compare this to how the American Constitution was created? (declaration of independence?)
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Whether war or peace prevailed, the Europeans continually upset existingpower balances and traditions among the Indians. During the late 1670sand throughout the 1680s, the influx of French and English traders to newregions was especially disruptive as they competed for furs by cutting pricesand selling muskets. Those tribes nearer the English and French traders usedtheir muskets to settle ancient scores with more distant enemies. The Ob-jibwa (Chippewa), for example, launched attacks against the Sioux and Foxbelow Lake Superior that drove those tribes west and south.
bit from "History of American Capitalism" class about how the Indigenous people were savvy buyers
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No Indian war inAmerican history was more destructive than King Philip’s war—over 3,000Indians and 1,000 colonists died in the fighting.
is that true?
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In 1645, the UnitedColonies declared war against the Narragansett and nearly destroyed thattribe.
they had the power & authority to declare war!!!
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Finally, Captain John Smith halted the anarchy and or-ganized the men into farming units.
anarchic to social production...
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In May 1607, theVirginia Company landed 104 Englishmen to found Jamestown and attemptto discover gold in the region. Obsessed with their treasure hunt, the settlersneglected planting crops, fishing, and hunting, causing starvation and dis-ease to kill many
lol
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Those Portuguese were only the most recent Europeansto drag nets off that sea’s rich fishing banks; Basque fishermen may havebeen fishing those same waters for 50 years. 5
wut
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His efforts, however, were not substantial enough forEngland to file a serious claim
because he was just "passing through", need "settlement" for actual claim
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from a scientific standpoint.
really corresponding to reality, marxist, "scientific socialist"
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