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842 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED.
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[The " National Review," October 1858, A...
theories d ridicule are vented * * , and * met * It on seems the other strange side at b first y _"ondiseriminating siht that women sarcasm them- _,
an . g selves the , and conte their st for warmest extende advocates d freedom of and modern a larger days scop , sh e in ld the rather management choose to urge
of the world ' s affairs from the basis of the false idea of woman ' s equality nature with and and similarity the claims to man which , instead it ive of s the her inexpugnable and the duties position which it of demands her real g
latter demand from her position , of . assent The would reason to be , however too ing slow assertions , : is progress pretty and obvious thence all-embracing . must The be advance made princi not from les by but the the
step and by step the , as practical . It sweep is wants far more , proved tempting advantages to be , a a nd brilliant safe means intellectual p , pare open way
p quiet ioneer engineers , levelling of the the hills world and ' s making progress strai who ght make the ways roads , t bit han by one bit of as th the ose _,
c ertainty ccasion f that or th they em arrive will be , and used never , and profitabl care to lay y used them . " down until there is a Now it may be that in _oiir ranks there are some whose ideas
are siasm less approaching practical than 1 revolutionary others , and zeal some ; who but such are moved is far b from y enthu the
general character of the advocacy in this country of an improvement in the position of women . It is much , more truly characterised by
the reviewer ' s own words ; progress has been made and is still
makingprinci " _JN p " ot les b , y but the step demand by step of , as assent practical to sweep wants ing , assertions proved advantages and all-embracing , and safe _. the
means prepare and open way . " The reviewertherefore , in his desperate thrusts at a revolutionary
, monster , in his sarcasms at strong-minded-ism , is simply fighting with Ms shadow . Is the reviewer aware that all question of
the admission to or the exclusion of the female sex from industry , has been long since settled by the people themselves beyond appeal ; that
" three-fourths of the adult unmarried women of Great Britain , twothirds of the widowed , and about one-seventh of the married , are
returned by our census as earning their bread by independent labor ?"
" The social reformer , " says the author of the ' Industrial Condition of finds Women it difficult , ' * " that to obtain would a advocate hearing a however radical momentous change in his any policy of our usages be ,
mit and the yet greatest it is also changes a point of to our work national themselve , character s out that spontaneousl , meanwhile within , may we per the - ;
social frameworkand for the larger half of a century remain almost y unobservant of them . , These moods of our nation cannot t > e better exemplified
women than shall in be . the While admitted change we that still to has industrial fancy wrought it is an itself open loyment out question in or the not whether industrial lo ! the our position female decennial sex of
statistics startle us with the revelation emp that the spontaneou , s movement of society third has of decided the entire the adult question female for population us . Two millions maintain of themselve adult women s b , in or
equally dep one endent - efficient work ; aid and as of co- the operators remainder in the , a business very , large avocations section g of ive their perhap y rela- s
tives . Has all this been made by revolutionary tacticsor has
it not rather taken progress place only too spontaneously ? ,
* Transactions of Society for Promotion Social Science , 1857 .
842 The Reviewer Reviewed.
842 THE REVIEWER REVIEWED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/54/
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