Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.


Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed (ed. 1912)


It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a...

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a...

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a...

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a...