《亨利·萨默·梅恩作品选·早期制度史演讲（四）（英文）》青少年教育文学精选.pdfVIP

亨利·萨默·梅恩作品选·早期制度史演讲(四)(英文) [英] 亨利·萨默·梅恩 主编 辽宁出版集团电子图书公司 亨利·萨默·梅恩作品选·早期制度史演讲(四 [英] 亨利·萨默·梅恩 主编 辽宁出版集团电子图书公司 2005 年1 月28字数：45千 ISBN：L-YY-0254/ 定价：3.00 Lecture XI The Early History of the Settled Property of Married Women The subject on which I am about to speak may perhaps convey one lesson. It may serve as a caution against the lax employment of the words ancient and modern, There are few persons, I suppose, who, approaching the Settled Property of Married Women without previous knowledge of its history, would not pronounce it one of the most modern of subjects. It has given rise to vehement controversy in our own day; some of the questions which it suggests are not yet solved; and there are many here, I dare say, who believe that they remember the first dawn of sound ideas on these questions. Yet, as a matter of fact, the discussion of the settled property of married women is a very old discussion. I do not indeed say, considering the vast antiquity now claimed for the human race, that our very first forefathers troubled themselves about the matter; but nothing can be more certain than that very soon after those divisions of mankind which were destined to ultimate greatness are seen in possession of the institution which was the one condition of their progress to civilisation -- the Family -- they are discerned grappling with the very same problem, no doubt in an early form, which we ourselves have hardly yet succeeded in solving. This assertion, I may observe, is less incredible to a Frenchman, or indeed to a citizen of any Continental State, than it is possibly to an Englishman. The law of the Continent on the proprietary