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    THE POSITION OF WOMAN. 291

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    are as much , needed for guidance and direction as the spirit and of man .

    power The practical question , as to how to achieve this , will come presently : I now only endeavor to make intelligible the result to be

    aimed at . The result to be aimed at is , how to make the spirit of woman as

    powerful in the affairs of the world , according to its own gifts , as the spirit of man is , of in the measure riht of its own capacities be secured ; so that the

    father by the 's harmonizing and the mother part 's attributes s , gguidance meet in may the unitof a as erfect y p God

    . The result to be aimed at , is not that woman should be bound down to one set of subjects and habits , and man to another ; and

    the two work in their separate worlds , only meeting in the evening ; but that woman ' s influence upon the world should be as free in the

    exercise of its peculiar characteristics as man ' s influence is free in theexercise of its own specialities ; and that become true for society

    - which is true for the men we honor and the God we -worship , viz ., that the faculties of manhood and womanhood must be blended

    together For examp for the le : — most -In perfect the conduct achievement of trade . and manufactures , note

    the necessity for the influence , in some shape or other , of educated women .

    There are two theories of labor : according to the one the relation between loyer and employed is the relation between a bale of

    emp cotton and its purchaser , or a yard of cloth and its buyer—it is a sheer bargain ; and the price once paid , nothing more remains to be

    thought of . According to the other , there are human considerations p extending simp duction loyer ly must as of machinery beyond so regard much the his cloth possessed bargai work and n peop of at cotton so le its much as . money men If horse humanity price and -power women ; and is for to ; every be the and at pro em not all - -

    - regarded woman to , every watch great over lab the or lives establishment and wants as of much the women needs an emp educated loyed ,,

    as it needs a master ' s head . Look at any great factory , with its young girls and children ;

    -more inward passion moves within them , than outward motion in all that fast machinery . If there were , in every factory , an educated

    woman to watch over those young lives ; to follow them to their homes coarse ; natures to learn mi their ht be characters saved from ; to lower aid their degradation struggles , ; and how refined many g

    into nobler life—how many wild passions might be subdued to purit If y trade . and manufactures have for the God-ward any purpose

    education of human souls , and are anything but monetary bargains , such machinery womanl of y the influence mill or is the as man needed agement for their of the just man conduct . as the

    This illustration will manifest the meaning of my statement , that x 2

    The Position Of Woman. 291

    THE POSITION OF WOMAN . 291

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/3/