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PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN. 401
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There Is A General Impression That The D...
inequalit I besides propose the y is to inequ something show ality that of - new it numbers proceeds , and in the from the result sexes some of and oth civil er also ization cause that , .
_^ "both the difficulty and the inequality , far from , being modern evilsare extremely ancientand are felt in uncivilized as well
as civilized , communities . , In all ages , men been , from killed their off more exposed than and adventurous and in
livesmust have sooner women ; barbarous warrior , and countries where , fi where ghting every and man the chase is a hunter are every and day a
so must occupation to greatl this , s day y , the exceed among mortality that savages among among . the Pol the women ygamy men lus . of is We of the the see community usual that thu it and is
ancient method of providing for the surpwomen s _Zealander produced . who We on have being all asked laughed how at he the had story provided of the for New his
second wife , from whom he had parted at the recommendation of the missionary , , replied , " Me eat her . " It was the but his way
8 £ problem > f getting of - how over to the provide usual for difficulty superfluous , and women solving ; unfortunatel than common himself y ,
had his way the , like objection that of of many being better unpleasan instructed t to men the party chiefly , concerned .
In the ancient empire of China , they evade the question altogether , by calculating the * rest how many infants women they shall want for
wives In the , and middle drowning and in as some Ro . man Catholic countries at the present tim ages ethe , lan adopted was that of shutting up
lands superfluous left by women the , in benevolent convents p , for and the supp purpose orting them . This there plan on ,
doubtlessmitigates the evil , yet is open to two great objections . their First badl , position that , off the ; would person and , secondl be s shut lad y up , to th are at get m not in any but always are cannot left contented out be , who received b with eing
very for want of y means , to support g them . Besides , this , the immuring of le numbers of able-bodied womenwho under different
circumstances by their arg labour , might hav s to e added political to economists the wealth , a of sad the waste country of ,
, appear material abolished . in Thi France s was one at the of the revolution pleas on and which in Ital Convents but a were few ; y
, months In our ago own , several country were the suppressed difficulty of on providing the same for ground superfluous .
, abbess Rfomen who seems lived to in be Edward an old the one Third , for ' Lad s rei y Juliana and wrote Berners a book , an gn
_b sp ave eak read s , of " that a superfluit a law was y of passed nuns forbidding , " and not - men , long the afterwards use of the , I ,
listaff and spindle , in order that some profitable employment
Prevalent Among Single Women. 401
PREVALENT AMONG SINGLE WOMEN . 401
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1864, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021864/page/41/
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