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    358 PASSING EVENTS.

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    ith made e idea are which worth this y of Society attention was and instituted commendation to carry . It out is , p being leasing true to find in itself that ,

    . I and have well no founded doubt that , is in gaining a short streng time th even , as those all just ideas eventuall who are y still do ; mur and - ? muring will be silenced by experience of the good which persons the Society is doing

    ; and by the progress it is making in redressing an acknowledged and exten- , _sive evil ; because none of those who shake their heads and express their disapprobation of the means employed can deny that the evil exists . It is

    the are very worl wise hard d and which indeed courageous may for us not to . be sit Any cured down one , or and who at to least looks believe be for miti that a moment gated there , b is y at any those the evil state who in

    derangement of society in in modern extensive Europe operation will . see In at the once ancient that world there , when are a causes popula of - tion was emi a grated common —when thing a nation —they took went it into all its together head to change menwomen its abode children , which

    and animals very , bag and baggage . The whole establishment , , — , the whole , In peop modern le of both Europ sexes e it , is with not all so . their Thousands appurtenances and tens — of moved thousands together of one . But sex

    __ women go to the and ends of course of the the earth natural , and there ortion form b societies etween , the greatl sexes y in is w in ant that of way tion deranged confined ; . almos There t entirel is an y extensiv to one prop e sex and , which ever-extendin tends naturall g stream y , to of derange

    emigrain the old countries the proportion between the sexes . Therefore , the evil which reports resulting op of erate from this yet this Society , more is quit and extensivel e elsewhere evident y . . th It There at has there are often are other been certain causes alluded fashions which to in which exist the ,

    tion and have , persons against obtained of which , which another this tend sex Society to to confine another is beg persons inning employment to of war one . , sex and ! Nbw , to I this one have is emp no a loyment concep doubt - ,

    women will more an and opportunity more wage of war doing effectuall anything y . which What they it proposes may be to found do is qualified to give by nature loyments or because by acquirement it is not the to do fashion —that to they are loy not women to be in excluded thembut from if

    they emp be found qualified by mental or by p emp hysical endowments for , that fair employment lay to what , they G- must odthe have Creator the door of both opened sexes to has it made , and them they qualified must have to

    p , , generall do . There y are can deficient be no , as doub men t whatever very often , th are at , in and industrial certainly , training nothing women can be

    more important than to draw attention to that great want , and to devise means it for is its deli supp htful ly . to Then see , after again wh , as at to has nursing been , said which here is peculiarl the great y a fact woman recognised ' s duty ,

    that often thi been s g is doomed not an emp to , it loyment . It is for a disgrace the most to wretched the Protestant , of mank reli ind gion , who to think have

    birth often that while and obliged hi in gh Catholic to character employ countries , devoted women this to whom the duty work nothing is often , in this but done country necessity by women we would have of been have high

    • It obli is ged sad us to to think employ that in tending a Protestant certain country classes of has _diseases been so in our much hosp behind itals . benefit Catholic from countries that in this respect nursing . I hop is e we department shall read a lesson of work to which our own is

    woman ' s peculiarly . . Certainty Everything , should be a done to dignif _^ y an employment which requires so much self-denial , and is of so much permanent that utility lsis

    ' most Then important , as to the . last I have point often alluded rem arked which myself follows that from defect the in first the , education ao

    358 Passing Events.

    358 PASSING EVENTS .

• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/70/