This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... IX. WHAT MADE EMANCIPATION POSSIBLE? This chapter in history might well be headed "The American Woman to the Rescue," so entirely is this epoch, in which all thoughtful people are earnestly desiring a science of sex as a guide to conduct, bound up with the circumstances, social prestige, and aspirations of the feminine portion of the great western nation. Jane Bull has fought a good fight too, for the education and larger life of women, and thus also of men; and this in spite of every drawback of surroundings and tradition. The average Englishman has hindered her in every way; but according to a characteristic of that singular nation, that its exceptionally able men are distinguished by exactly the qualities in which the generality are lacking, the chivalry, Imagination and clear-sighted logic of Shelley, John Stuart Mill, the still unknown medical author of "The Elements of Social Science,"--a book of many editions and often translated.--Edward Carpenter, and, to include an Irishman, Bernard Shaw, have been an inspiration both in and beyond their own country. America, however, is the field in which the sex problem will be worked out both theoretically and practically. "Westward the course of empire takes its way," but it has been left for the conquerors of the most western continent to exhibit a conquest not before known in the history of mankind; for the character, the future, and the very existence of the American nations will be, and largely is, in the power of women. And if this power proves blind at first, and hostile to the interests of the race, the man's weapons--fist, rifle, treachery or diplomacy--will not avail him; the woman's weapons must be borrowed, patience and moral suasion, in the use of which man is yet but a child....

Passet shows that the majority of correspondents who participated in the sex radical movement resided in the Midwest and the Great Plains states, where ideas of individual freedom and sovereignty resonated particularly strongly.".

In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of “reconnaissance” first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. Reasoning Otherwise highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. As McKay demonstrated in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, the Canadian left is alive and flourishing, and has shaped the Canadian experience in subtle and powerful ways. Reasoning Otherwise continues this tradition of offering important new insight into the deep roots of leftism in Canada.

Successor to the highly acclaimed Encyclopedia of Unbelief (1985), edited by the late Gordon Stein, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief is a comprehensive reference work on the history, beliefs, and thinking of America''s fastest growing minority: those who live without religion. All-new articles by the field''s foremost scholars describe and explain every aspect of atheism, agnosticism, secular humanism, secularism, and religious skepticism. Topics include morality without religion, unbelief in the historicity of Jesus, critiques of intelligent design theory, unbelief and sexual values, and summaries of the state of unbelief around the world.In addition to covering developments since the publication of the original edition, the New Encyclopedia of Unbelief includes a larger number of biographical entries and much-expanded coverage of the linkages between unbelief and social reform movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, including the labor movement, woman suffrage, anarchism, sex radicalism, and second-wave feminism.More than 130 respected scholars and activists worldwide served on the editorial board and over 100 authoritative contributors have written in excess of 500 entries. The distinguished advisors and contributors--philosophers, scientists, scholars, and Nobel Prize laureates--include Joe Barnhart, David Berman, Sir Hermann Bondi, Vern L. Bullough, Daniel Dennett, Taner Edis, the late Paul Edwards, Antony Flew, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Peter Hare, Van Harvey, R. Joseph Hoffmann, Susan Jacoby, Paul Kurtz, Gerd Lüdemann, Michael Martin, Kai Nielsen, Robert M. Price, Peter Singer, Victor Stenger, Ibn Warraq, George A. Wells, David Tribe, Sherwin Wine, and many others. With a foreword by evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins, this unparalleled reference work provides comprehensive knowledge about unbelief in its many varieties and manifestations.