Excerpt from The Woman Citizen's Library, Vol. 12 of 12: A Systematic Course of Reading in Preparation for the Larger Citizenship<br><br>The voice of many centuries cries, Woman's Sphere is the home In the Ptolemaic system of the universe the word Sphere signified the invisible and transparent circle of space in which each planet, While having a certain movement of its own, was carried around the earth by the circle of the fixed stars. Long after the cosmic system of Copernicus had displaced the Ptolemaic theory this use of the word sphere, despite its false implications of a separate yet dependent action, its disregard of interpenetrating and interacting forces, lingered in speech and literature. It lingers yet in relation to woman's life and activities.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.