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400 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS
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LXXIL—ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS PREVA...
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There is a general impression that the d...
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Made That Terrible Fine Ladies History A...
opinions almost certainly "by knowing what are his interests and surroundings .
It is to be ardently desired that women should make use of the opportunities they have—to be ardently desired alsothat
they had wider opportunities , but we would gladly see in , the heads of households some dim discerning of what a grand
place To return a woman to holds Miss D even . and now those , if she like woul her d whose but seize inions it ! are
only formed by the influence of some few agreeable , op people , and are like caterpillars who take their colour from the food
lig on htl which y taken they op feed inions . What were a but good lig thing htly held it would _; but be alas , if ! such the
greater part of mankind and womankind do not hold them indifferently , but often quite strenuously and positively , and
parties are read fi y ghting to ally for themselves those opinions for better . Wh and y cannot worse peop to men le when and they have not the time or the head to investigate a subject
say , " on that I have no decided opinion ? " words very rarely , , alas ! used . There is little relation between the grounds
of any opinions , and the very rigour with which it is upheld . For exampleMiss D . had made up her mind slavery was right ( on
hav what e grounds had , no you objection have seen to ) , marry and would a Southerner , all things , permitting and invest ,
her fortune in human chattels ; and once her interest on that side Now , what to return a partizan to the she question would have of cotton become . Can ! we expect the
slave money -own to er buy to the give produce up his of slaves this , stolen when labour we rush ? Slavery with our is
surely a greater crime than the modern robbery of pockets;—it his includes labour the his greatest wifehis of children all robberies . If , you the robbery bought of knowing man , l of y
stolen pocket , handkerchiefs , , you would be branded as an one accomp in Eng lice land of the for thief buying ! Does the produce no one of think stolen of labour blaming ? every
B . L . S . _Bodiohon .
400 On The Cause Of The Distress
400 ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS
Lxxil—On The Cause Of The Distress Preva...
LXXIL—ON THE CAUSE OF THE DISTRESS PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN . A Paper Read at the Social Science Congress . By Jessie Bouchebett .
There Is A General Impression That The D...
There is a general impression that the difficulty of providing for our large numbers of single women is occasioned solely by
an inequality in the _numbers of the sexes ; and that this
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/40/
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