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Saturday

Ethical readings

I'm going to post a list of ethical readings, as soon as I finish editing it :-)  But here is a great selection from John Stuart Mill's "On the Subjugation of Women" from last nights's wedding (we also turned out the lights for Earth Hour, and the 'sustainable' caterer had backup heat)


"What marriage may be in the case of two persons of cultivated faculties, identical in opinions and purposes, between whom there exists that best kind of equality, similarity of powers and reciprocal superiority in them — so that each can enjoy the luxury of looking up to the other, and can have alternately the pleasure of leading and of being led in the path of development — I will not attempt to describe. To those who can conceive it, there is no need; to those who cannot, it would appear the dream of an enthusiast. But I maintain, with the profoundest conviction, that this, and this only, is the ideal of marriage." (Subjection of Women 4)