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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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86 BIOGRAPHY.

the ancient tradition about Adam’s rib has undergone a
considerable modification through Christianity itself. Our
life is now more essentially a spiritual life -—a spiritual
world —in which no one is man or woman with respect to
right of inheritance, majority, or the unbounded produc-
tiveness of mental gifts. Through Christianity woman is
already emancipated, but the force of habit is strong, and
strongest in woman. The old, so to speak, natural condi-
tion, she has been used to look upon as the most conven-
ient. Fredrika felt herself called upon to give woman a
strong reminder of her true, that is her full, mission.

Woman’s true mission and sphere of activity in general,
appeared to me to have been pointed out to her by her na-
ture, which in all times and amongst all nations, in ordinary
cases, is the same, and which in Christianity has received
her highest and noblest mission in leading man’s immortal
soul to God.

Fredrika had frequently requested me to communicate
to her any thing which I had found uncommon, — any pe-
culiarity in people, especially in unmarried women, and
what afforded them any pleasure here in this world. This
I had often done. And now I related to her some beauti-
ful traits in children, in case she should wish to make use
of them in her new book, and as illustrations to my project
for her eminently gifted women, for whom I was anxious
to point out a higher and more important mission, more
suitable both for their head and heart, than that of becom-
ing public functionaries.

I was one evening, some years ago, at a concert in
Stockholm, with one of my friends and her son, then ten
years old. ‘The lad was sitting before us. On the other
side of me I had another intimate friend. She noticed in
the course of the evening that the boy several times put
his hand to his forehead, and she asked him therefore if
he had the headache? “No,” he answered; “I never
have the headache.” My friend began then to converse

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