Elizabeth was fortunate to be born in
the lull flush of Renaissance enthusiasm for education. Women had always been
educated of course, for had not St. Paul said that women were men’s equals in
the possession of a soul But to the old idea that they should be trained in
Christian manners and thought was now added a new purpose: to quicken the spirit
and train them in the craft and eloquence of the classical authors of Greece and
Rome. Critics were not wanting, morbidly obsessed with the weaknesses of the
sex-- its love of novelty and inborn tendency to vice -- to think women
dangerous enough without adding to their subtlety and forwardness; but they were
not able to stem the tide. Henry VII’s mother was one of the first to indicate the new trend. She knew enough French to translate "The Mirror of God f A. make them superior to men in religion and intellectual matters. B. make them less religious and more rationed and intellectual. C. make up for their weaknesses of character and brain. D. develop both their religious and their intellectual capacities. [填空题]
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