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336 ORGANIZATION.
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childishness , will continue to keep the ascendancy , and reign as heretofore .
That society suffers from the incapacity of its wonien none can deny or dispute _; for weak foolish mothers make silly sons , as
surely as _" ailing" sickly ones make " moaning children . " There are now women able and ready to teach other women ,
and many more will arise and come forward whenever pupils are to be found to receive their lessons . Let women learn from men
those things which women may not yet be able to teach , but let them likewise learn from their own sex all that their own sex are
competent to impart . Men have certainly enough to do without women hanging so heavily upon them . To be lukewarm or
indifferent as to the support of schemes calculated to produce more activeminded and active-handed members of society is a grievous error ,
an error , the effects of which recoil on women themselves , as well as on those surrounding them ; therefore it is clearly their business
to take heed to these matters and give them all the aid they can . It is generally speaking a true proverb , that " where-there is a will
there is a way , " and were all women inspired with the same strong * will , turned in one direction , results would be arrived at and work
done that would almost surprise themselves . "Were an association formed on a large scale among women of education and of ample
means , its organization would readily shape itself to suit the requirements of the times , and the fittest women would soon be discovered
for the fittest places . We do not desire this movement to become merely a fashionable
one , for with whatever success such might at first be attended , fashion , and fashion only , we need scarcely say , would in a short
space of time annihilate it , since the very word fashion is synonymous with change . No subject can be of more importance than
that which includes the proper training of girls in the first instance , and of finding outlets for their labor when thus trained ;
and for the furtherance of this object we would ask every woman of every rank to exert herself to the uttermost , as not sim _^
jAy the material or _jxhysical existence of thousands depends upon its advancementbut the moral and spiritual perceptions of as
, many more thousands of both sexes . The glaring fact stands undisputed that where numbers of women are ignorant and
idle , rendered of no use to society by usages and customs , as well as from other causesdegradation must follow as a natural
, sequence . Whatever evils exist at this moment , or whatever is illarranged in the condition of men is still worse by many degrees in
that of women , and the latter ought not falsely to think that there is merit in thus enduring misery . Many women are aware of the
extent of wretchedness which numbers of their sex endure in silent despairbut however anxious to find means and ways of lessening
, the amount of evil thus endured , they experience great _* difficulty in
the want of combination , and from being unaccustomed to lead or
336 Organization.
336 _ORGANIZATION .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1861, page 336, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011861/page/48/
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