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| 8 | 313 | What a contrast is the View more quotes about beautiful">beautiful, vended girl, branded and collared, desiring a master and trained to please one, kneeling before her purchaser and kissing his whip, with the brutish female, cowering under her master's club at the back of his cave. |
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| 8 | 310 | The culture is a setting which transforms and enhances the simplicities and rudenesses of nature, ennobling her and exalting her, lending her glory and articulation, refining her, fulfilling her, rather than a sewer and a trap, in which she is kept half-starved and chained. |
| 8 | 311 | An example of this sort of thing is the institution of female slavery. |
| 8 | 312 | It is clearly founded on, and expressive of, the order of nature, but what a wonder has civilization wrought here, elevating and transforming what is in effect a genetically coded biological datum, male dominance and female submission, into a complex, historically developed institution, with its hundreds of aspects and facets, legal, social and aesthetic. |
| 8 | 313 | What a contrast is the beautiful, vended girl, branded and collared, desiring a master and trained to please one, kneeling before her purchaser and kissing his whip, with the brutish female, cowering under her master's club at the back of his cave. |
| 8 | 314 | And yet, of course, both women are owned, and completely. |
| 8 | 315 | But the former, the slave girl, is owned with all the power and authority of law. |
| 8 | 316 | If anything, she is owned even more completely than her primitive forebear. |