A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)

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Excerpt from A Decade of Italian Women, Vol. 1 of 2The degree in which any social system has succeeded in ascertaining woman's proper position, and in putting her into it, will be a very accurate test of the progress it has made in civilisation. And the very general and growing conviction, that our own social arrangements, as they exist at present, have not attained any satisfactory measure of success in this respect, would seem, therefore, to indicate, that England in her nineteenth century has not yet reached years of discretion after all.But conscious deficiency is with nations at least, if...