At this time of all times the poetizing and enfeebling of the practical instincts, experience, and capability of the State by the admission of women as voters would be a perilous venture.
From a New York Times editorial in 1915 opposing women’s suffrage (PDF). “We’ve changed positions on that,” says their current Editorial Page Editor…
Another choice sentence (though you’ll want to read the whole thing):
And when thoughtful men are perplexed, seeing so many thorny questions, so many contingencies, so much dependent on the war, such possibilities of swift transitions after the war, the suffragists come, in all innocence, and ask to have the economic and political wisdom, not too high already, of the electorate diluted by the infusion of unpracticed, uninstructed feminism!
My Tumblr stats. Not unexpectedly, overwhelmingly photos and quotes:
- 253 text posts
- 174 links
- 1035 quotes
- 3663 photo posts
- 9 conversations
- 270 video posts
- 58 audio posts
Via TumblrStats.
I joined Tumblr in September 2007, but it wasn’t really December 2009/January 2010 that I started using it on a regular basis (see the early stages of my archive). It was probably some time in 2008 or 2009 that a friend said “you have a Tumblr? What is this, 2007?” ;-)
A ‘birdseye’ view of a Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) maneuvering through a forest.
watch the rest here!
Hands up if this made you think of Return of the Jedi. *raises hand*
(via invaderxan)
#relevant to my search for a decent Beowulf ebook
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by Conor Houghton who started Failed Better Book Titles.
Beowulf
(Part of Readers’ Redux week. Here is the original Better Book Title for Beowulf.)
Alternative title for Beowulf. Perfect.
Vastra and Jenny were definitely my favourite thing from the Doctor Who Christmas episode.
Gorgeous graphic, magnificent line.
Alfred Wolmark: The Flatiron Building. Saw this on a poster for the Jerwood Gallery while travelling to work this morning; immediately made a note to look it up (and Tumblr it) once I got to a computer.
William Blake, The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the Divine Throne, watercolour and pencil, c. 1803-1805. (Based on Revelation 4:10)
