From "Sarah Collins" 1750. Thought-provoking dreams. Doubts rise. Gender issues. Love wins out.

[johanna_hypatia]

Less than two months later, however, Kweku's dream of his village full of strangers recurred one night. It seemed identical in all respects to the previous dream, except that it felt different. He could not understand why the village didn't even look familiar any more. Even though he recognized everything about it, it was as though he'd learned

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[mysanal]

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[johanna_hypatia]

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[johanna_hypatia]

Even though men accomplished all the great deeds! It was men who built cities, ships, roads; it was men who organized government and defense; it was men who steered the destinies of nations. And yet what worth had all the proud works of men, unless women were part of life too? Men's contributions to society were only half of the whole. When wholeness was lacking from life, life itself was lacking. Quite simply, women are life itself.

Here my hero anticipates, by over two centuries, a key theme of the late-20th-century philosopher James Brown.