The new woman was the term used at the end of the nineteenth century to describe women who were pushing against the limits which society imposed on women.
By "commonwealth" it must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less.
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