This is indeed an essay of timeless essence. This gives the reader a break from the serious reading of this article and a chance to engage his imagination to create a connection between Mill’s arguments and reality. A tall and large-boned man must on this showing be wonderfully superior in intelligence to a small man, and an elephant or a whale must prodigiously excel mankind” (Mill 3). He argues that “If it is inferred merely because a woman’s bodily frame generally is of fewer dimensions than a man’s, this criterion would lead to strange consequences. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and then. Mill as it not the case with most other writers engaged in serious discourses employs a sense of humor in his work, which breaks the monotony of having to read serious stuff all the time without having anything to laugh at. The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. This can be best seen in his support statements such as, “The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes – the legal subordination of one sex to the other – is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement and…It ought to be replaced by a principle of perfect equality, admitting no power or privilege on the one side, or disability on the other” (Mill 1).
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