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[The " National Review," October 1858, A...
Ms strictures . These , indeed , for tlie most part , are directed against fancies reared by Ms own imagination . Like other clever writers ,
lie delights in setting up marks to hit off with his wit and raillery —• a mode of attack , if attack it can be called , by no means unfair in
literary skirmisMng , but which is sometimes used for the same purposes as a general often uses his sharpshooters , merely to cover
retreat . When riflemen pepper and light cavalry dash in , simply to allow the chief to surrender with arms in his hands , or Mmself to dictate the charter of his rival's rights , the sliarpshooting may
be held of less account , and even , though galling on one ' s weak points , can be taken with some degree of good humour . We concern ourselves more with the terms of the capitulation than with the loss
of a straggling outsider picked off by the last shots of the fusilade . fairl reviewer " Both be , our attributed " have forms become of ( in thoug some too ht narrow degree and our and at habits least engrossing ) of to industrial the : fact and this that life defect , " the says quick may tlie
y them advance by and a sort strong of chasm leaning from in one the direction women of ; the and- men depriving ' s minds them has separated of the has softening left these and too enlarg with ing inadequate influence of resources the closer for companionshi the full development p of the of latter their ,
faculties and natures . " It is the women themselves who have first become conscious of this ; who have felt their wants and their comparative isolation . They have been
petition moved , indeed for the , means by a practical of livelihood pinch , . thence A denser marriages population later , and a kee proportion ner com - - ably fewer ; the disuse , through superior manufacturing facilities , of a large
mass cast them of dome more stic upon industry their , — own have resources at once . limited They cry their for home larger avocations opportunitie and s possess of employment : and but for they , a for closer ask means also interest of for subsistence an and enlarged sympath less education precarious in the , for intellectual than freer those scope they pursuits for their now
powers and practical , concerns of men . y is turing Women " consistent It and has , ' that been commercial with thi p s ointed gap the classes prevail h out ypothesis b y , s than more the of in author in its the the being hi of middle gher * The connected , or especiall Industrial lower with y ones the Condition ; the manufac and thi id of s -
development ¦" . The defects of what of our may present be called social our condition material with industry respect . to the education rap most and position difficult of women The question , are real is so and important lexcasts ; the its suggestion fine and intertang of remedies led
roots so deep . into the groundwork of comp all our , political , social , and domestic in status which ; _£ it } ie is elements so impossible it deals to with prophesy are so the fundamental results or limit , and the the consequences region is one
capable of the - changes of perceiving , —that the to approach mere outline it at of all its is bearings disheartening ; and thoroug to any hl mind y to patience investigate in the it would intellect require attempting a comprehensiveness itwhich is rarel of grasp granted , a delicacy to the chil _* and dren a
of men . The collision of many minds , , and still more y the experience wrung from less comp many lete misdirected and successful efforts solution , will of doubtless the problem eventuall . Meanwhile y educe a it more is not or
perceiving surprising how that deep most ly minds their own shrink interests from are it ; engaged and that , and men urged especiall by no y , im not - mediate impatientl practical asideand stimulant with , a for dim the impression most part that push their the domestic whole comforts question
are endangered y , hold , b , y the old maxim , quieta non movere " ' VOIi . II . Z 0
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/49/
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