On this page
-
Text (1)
-
340 THE .BE VIE WEB REVIEWED.
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
[The " National Review," October 1858, A...
tionwith tlie reformation of criminals ;—second , that the study , especiall , of political is fitted to train the mind to
reasony economy , ing cerns ;— of and individuals third , that and it direct leads s the the student attention to beyond take an the interest lesser in con the
progress derate and and comparative reasonable , but condition it meets of with nations a torrent . All of this sarcasm seems from very
mo , bur reviewer , because he chooses to fancy ( what the author he comments on nowhere says or implies ) that all this study is to come winds
before more elementary studies . He himself , as usual , up with social " We a cience concession are not that saying they of that all that women incapable is asked ought of . not comprehending to study political it as economy far as it and is
t se do ttled not ht s , say and that of , furnishing minds themselves , thoug are new h with young ideas its for , difficult should its greater no problems t , if fixity alread we and y traine onl extension d to stead ; t we i y t
is ins houg of trument all things , occup and for y the earl most y training preposterous of the to intellect attempt , to ins use tead it ; for of either such y things sex y as an as
arithmetic geometry . " quotes So of utter course a say "word we to ; nor gainsay did the it . author Let froni arithmetic whom and the geometry reviewer
come in , come their in place its , place and . let The the reviewer training does afforded not , cannot by political deny ,
that economy the study of political economy is calculated to train the mind in some of the most important methods of reasoning . haste to
The reviewer represents the same author as making cram all desirous sorts of that things all into the women minds should of poor be girls taug . ht " everything She is extremel —and y
that immediately . young She is urgent about it . " The haste , however , is all in the reviewer ' s own impatience ; the little book he comments
on , But says let not us a word from of it altercation . and return to the broad path in
which we find pass the reviewer go step , by step with ourselves . perceptive " The most obvious and characteristics idity of movement of the feminine A woman intellect sees are a delicacy thousand of
things which power , escape a man rap . * * * * Mr . . Buckle is no doubt right in them the kind of influence than justice he ascribes in the wide to the _scoiD intellect he has of iv women en to , it s nd ra h n d one
however the hig no h , more p w lace heth he er h lias e is assi ver gned y correc to its t in importance say e ing that . g the It may value of q the ues ge t female ioned , ,
ter intellect . It , is to not the as advancement deductive reasoners of knowled that ge springs women from have its advanced deductive the charac con- - ¦* of
induction ideas inductive _quests they of exercise or strike thoug simp ht out le of . insig with mind * ht * , so : depends * but much either , The fecundity upon they question the h are a vexed ve of the a the mar question result extent vellous of how unconscious lig women h far tning the ' s -
mental like faculty insi of ht . induction * * * , or * a It perhaps is an idle still question more inexp which licab is le the one hig of her direc in t equal creation degree become ( the g supp intellect lemental than of man to the become or other the intellect . * * * of Doubtless * woman Women ) since there , as a eacli cl is for is , can in both no an
more men men women . of sexes moral a common sentiment ground , and of a thoug common ht and ground intellectual of practical activity work , a common . It is ground there and the
that human nature assumes its most perfect aspect ; upward progress
340 The .Be Vie Web Reviewed.
340 THE . BE VIE WEB REVIEWED .
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/52/
-