de-sentimentalizing

Updated: June 24, 2025

If one could succeed in de-sentimentalizing society, one would take from a few the chief pleasure of living, but it is far from certain that the material welfare of the majority would not be proportionately increased. Half-measures would of course be of very little use.

E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton - Modern Women and What is Said of Them: A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)