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How to Observe Morals and Manners

A work by Harriet Martineau

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  • What korrents draws from it

    An observer of another society should not generalize on the spot, however firmly they grasp particular facts, In judging a society, every consideration is subordinate to the relative amount of human happiness, Judging one people by another misses the truth; judging a nation by the essentials of human happiness sees it as it is …

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What korrents draws from it

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  1. An observer of another society should not generalize on the spot, however firmly they grasp particular facts (opens korrents.com)1

  2. In judging a society, every consideration is subordinate to the relative amount of human happiness (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Judging one people by another misses the truth; judging a nation by the essentials of human happiness sees it as it is (opens korrents.com)1

  4. How far women are degraded is as good a test as any of the state of domestic morals in a country (opens korrents.com)1

  5. Even in France, England and the United States women are half-educated, barred from most paid work, and bound by laws they cannot consent to (opens korrents.com)1

  6. Many women must support themselves without access to varied work or education, so they are raised to see marriage as their one object (opens korrents.com)1

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  • Harriet Martineau

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  1. How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)

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