Download or read book The Gathering of the Forces Volume 2 written by Walt Whitman and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... Part V ESSAYS, PERSONALITIES, SHORT EDITORIALS GENERAL ESSAYS July 24, 184.6 Women The following paragraph, which we clip from a New York print of this morning, has been "going the rounds of the papers," quite long enough: THE CHARACTER OF WOMEN.--If the following had been written by a bachelor, whose nature had been soured by repeated jiltings, one would not feel surprised at the slander; but they are the sentiments of one of their own sex--no less a person, indeed, than Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle, and we copy them for the purpose of showing what women were in her time! "All women are a kind of mountebanks; for they would do all they can to make the world believe they are better than they are; and they will do all they can to draw company, and their allurements are their dressing, dancing, painting, and the like; and when men are cacht, they laugh to see what fools they were to be taken with such toys, for women's ends are only to make men protest, lie, and forswear themselves, in the admiration of them; for a woman's only delight is to be nattered of men; for they care not whether they love truly or speak falsely, so they profess earnestly."--There is a class of pert thin-brained fools, in society--and not a few of them "connected with the press "--who think they do something very smart, when they say bitter things of women, or when they collect what some other sour-minded ones have uttered, and parade it before the world to tell against the same gentle sex. It has, indeed, come to be a fashion with this class, to lose no opportunity of decrying the character and talents of women. Dolts! it is their own impure hearts which make the ones they insult, appear low. To him who looks through a muddy wrinkled glass the fairest...