The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

CONCERNING HUSBANDS AND WIVES.

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who went to the south of Europe took possession of what
we call to-day Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, and Asia
Minor, and developed one kind of civilization. Those who
went to the North took possession of Scandinavia,--Norway, Sweden, and Denmark,- and developed another civilization.
What was the status of husbands and wives in these civilizations? " The northern races gradually developed a love
of freedom, a passion for liberty, the southern people gave
themselves to culture and social organization. The northern races stood for the development of the individual soul;
those who went to the south became devoted to philosophy,
art, and law. The northern people had a high ideal of
woman, recognizing her as their other half and their equal,
and developing a civilization that in a semi-barbarous way
gave prominence to this great truth, while the southern
races simply indulged in romantic admiration of the beauty
and graces of woman."
The world will never be so wise, nor so old, as to regard
with indifference the marvelous civilization of Greece. No
nations, dead or living, have ever surpassed the Greeks in
their development of art. When our students of art can
learn no more of modern teachers, they cross the ocean, and
study under the old Greek artists, through their masterpieces, scattered through the European galleries. The
exquisite language of the Greeks and their various phases of
philosophy are studied to-day, and enter into the culture of
the schools. They were the wisest, most intellectual, and
wittiest people of their time. But they retained the
Oriental estimate of women, and were not good husbands.
They held woman in everlasting tutelage from the
cradle to her gray-haired old age. No Greek wife could sit
at table with her husband. No Greek bride could speak to