Accepting the Universe: Ethel Puffer Howes 1922
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2015-03-22

his psychological study of women in the workplace was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1922 by his psychological study of women in the workplace was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1922 by Ethel Puffer Howes 1872-1950. She studied under Hugo Münsterberg at the University of Freiburg in Germany during the 1890's and then at Harvard University.
Here's the link
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Howes/accepting.htm
She also wrote The Psychology of Beauty
https://archive.org/details/psychologybeaut00howeuoft (1905)

Here's a quote
An 'antinomy,' O my non-philosophical reader, is a contradiction between conclusions from two equally good premises. Thus, for example, did Kant the philosopher prove that space both is, and is not, infinite in extent; and that time both has, and cannot have, beginning and an end -- thereby getting a foothold, or excuse, for his world-shaking Critique of Pure Reason itself! And even so can be shown, I ween, the self-contradictions of woman's nature and her present predicament. Is it too much to hope that a way may thus be pointed to a critique of -- woman's world?

What can one say but that Woman, like Space and Time, being subject to so complete an antinomy, requires like them to have the conditions of her world somehow transcended!

'I accept the Universe!' cried Margaret Fuller. 'Gad! she'd better,' was Carlyle's retort, so much acclaimed (by men). But I think she was, for women, o'erhasty. 1872-1950. She studied under Hugo Münsterberg at the University of Freiburg in Germany during the 1890's and then at Harvard University.
Here's the link
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Howes/accepting.htm
She also wrote The Psychology of Beauty
https://archive.org/details/psychologybeaut00howeuoft (1905)

Here's a quote
An 'antinomy,' O my non-philosophical reader, is a contradiction between conclusions from two equally good premises. Thus, for example, did Kant the philosopher prove that space both is, and is not, infinite in extent; and that time both has, and cannot have, beginning and an end -- thereby getting a foothold, or excuse, for his world-shaking Critique of Pure Reason itself! And even so can be shown, I ween, the self-contradictions of woman's nature and her present predicament. Is it too much to hope that a way may thus be pointed to a critique of -- woman's world?

What can one say but that Woman, like Space and Time, being subject to so complete an antinomy, requires like them to have the conditions of her world somehow transcended!

'I accept the Universe!' cried Margaret Fuller. 'Gad! she'd better,' was Carlyle's retort, so much acclaimed (by men). But I think she was, for women, o'erhasty.