...insistence that the dominant motive of life should be duty and not self. "The rock," she says, " on which most of the flower-bedecked marriage barges...of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of self." This sentence, by the way, gives a taste of the author's quality. Her weapon of attack is a...

...insistence that the dominant motive of life should be duty and not self. "The rock," she says, " on which most of the flower-bedecked marriage barges...of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of self." This sentence, by the way, gives a taste of the author's quality. Her weapon of attack is a...

...B. Rogers confidently explained "why American marriages fail": because women had become devoted to "the latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self." 2« Feminists admitted their role in changing the family, but they had a different explanation...

...was unconscionable.66 In 1909, writer Anna B. Rogers insisted that shaky marriages were founded on "the latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self." She especially blamed divorce on those women who refused to recognize that marriage was "their...

...women. The "devouring ego in the 'new woman,'" warned Anna Rogers in the Atlantic Monthly, has created "the latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self." Instead of acknowledging that "marriage is her work in the world," she has tried to enter the...

...deMOTHERHOOD, MORALITY, AND THE "MORON" 11 clared that "the devouring ego in the 'new woman' " had created "the latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self?'18 Because they challenged the conventional standards of womanhood, these women were attacked...

...the celebration of selfishness." As with divorce (which, in the words of Anna B. Rogers, represented "the latter-day cult of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self), Progressives lamented the consequences of individualism for the drunkard and were especially...

...crude as it is, would cover the cause of an astonishing number of divorces in this year of grace 1907. GROWTH OF INDIVIDUALISM " My sweet, my own — Myself...of individualism; the worship of the brazen calf of Self. It is admittedly not easy to remember that our lives are only important as integral parts of...