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338 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED.
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[The " National Review," October 1858, A...
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in male i would leas tself modern t have or be The female a socie long hitherto advantages ty and ; and requires not had we very opened a profitable wider to to point them field task in of . the industry To . It direction discuss is a que than what stion of the some this which middle field of will the classes is women decide many to be at ,
branches on at . home of manufac and with turing the seem least occupation exposure , especiall and publici y those ty . which For we can in do be the carried assert ,
and sent mos condition t strong , of ly the , that world there are is totall a multitude y unfitted of for avocations woman which ; and , that it pre will
require she is mos a nice t discrimina tent to tion succeed , and cautious and which judgmen are mos t to t select in consonance those in which with
her notwithstanding nature as compe it is Amazonian , not as womanhood it sneers is presumed , , we still it with may Mr become . Tennyson , and with believe wha to t ,
subsis What t , —her is left ' dis us tinctive to add to such passages . ' " ? If the reviewer makes return little
these important concessions , may we not Lear in a raillery about TheresaVittoria Colonna and MrsBrowning
Mrs " . Semiramis Somerville and and Maria Miss Martineau , , " down to Brynhilda who tied . up King , Guntherand Captain Betsey who commands the Scotch brig Cleotus " ?
, Take another aspect of the question . Our reviewer says : — grea " t There injustice can directe be and no injury d doubt to proserving to that the our subjects modern the balance of system it ; part of of faculties female of education education * * at least * does
We remains ough shall t to much mak be e to nothing be done of in attemptin osition g to to make a system men of which women . hem ; s but them ther so e opp
the closel distinctivel y within certain feminine limits th of . range All honor , and urges to those them who , so without exclusivel losing y along sight pa
to insis of g insurmoun i t ving that a broader they table y shall and and not ineffaceable comp be le debarred ter character distinctions from to studie , bend the s education their and practical above of g all irls efforts , from and
modes of study , which strengthen and invigorate the , reflective , powers , . " And again : —
w absence to " say t The of how of greatest amenableness means much of for deficiency t forming he r t a sh lo in trained g ical female desul proof habits education to , ry is of reason the thoug is result i , ht an of d ; and e of women ver their it is , impossible and been defective their , the
an education * ' What . is mo st needed * * in female education is not so much a change in the in sub its jec whole ts towards method which M it is n are direc t ted h , t a books t least too in its much better and forms things , as too a change little ;
but ort women ant _nart infinitel of know y . l more edge so cons . ists aug The in notion knowing is still what common , other that men the have most said
imthem But p abou g t irls that things are there ; never to are be subjects taken familiar __ past of t inquiry t this with _sten ist w ha . t t The he is of , w idea but or h l d , with is things never what t abou suggested ideas is t printed which t to .
b the e forme truth is to the be found imagina out tion , acual and memory xences and reasoning correc powers . are They y ithe idea that history is what Mr . Hume has saidinstead
of are b encouraged eing led back to look into forms the and actual conditions past , and to gath think er from every h , poss lies ib in le
Butler source ' s an Atlas insigh an t d into " consists its in being able to name : rivers they , or put geograp your finger y on a ,
338 The Reviewer Reviewed.
338 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/50/
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