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HOW TO UTILIZE THE POWERS OF WOMEN. 43
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to lielp . Let women bear tlie wisdom of that old adage in mind , and studtheir own capabilities -with reference to business . We
need not y be at all alarmed lest the progress of civilization should produce too substitutes for human labor , and thus condemn a
many majority of Adam's children to eat the bread of idleness . All the operations of machinery need to be directed by intelligence , and
have consequently a tendency to elevate those who overlook them in the mental scale . But there are innumerable processes which neither
science nor invention , nor anything else , can take out of the hands of labor . These may be regarded as the perpetual inheritance of
the children of toil , out of which bread springs up to them , like leasant fruit on the way-side of life . We say pleasant fruit ,
because p none but those who have tasted it can tell how sweet the earnings of labor are . Fortune , in her utmost munificence , can
never bestow a delight _eqiial to that which a man earns for himself when he eats what he has sown , and plucks from trees which he has
himself It is one planted of . the noblest characteristics of the present age that it
is willing to recognise this truth . -Still it is man chiefly that it contlates . The surplus female population in the British islands
have emp little or no care or attention bestowed on them . If they conduct themselves wisely and prosper it is admitted that they do -well ;
but on the other hand no one is surprised or excited to very great commiseration if they are plunged over head and ears in ruin .
Women , therefore , when they cultivate their understanding , and put forward their thoughts for the benefit of the public , should as far as
possible direct their efforts to the improvement of their own sex . The loftiest minds among men have always been distinguished by
unusual sympathy for the calamities and misfortunes of women , which we must reckon the fact of being born in an old and
their over among -peop full led value country the difficulties . But men and obst after acles all with can which rarely women estimate have at
to contend . When single and left to their own resources , two things are required of them almost wholly incompatible ; first , in
order to succeed they are expected to be bold and resolute ; and second , it is demanded of them , to obtain the full approbation of
men , that they shall never overstep the gentleness , reserve , refinement obtained , and credit delicacy , But for which she who in all has age to s fi and ht the countries battle of women lifewith have - g ,
. out the least aid from any one , cannot practise much reserve . In the recesses of her own heart she may be delicate and refined
enough , but her manners will inevitably contract from the circumstances of her position a certain masculine air not very
reconcilable with that timidity which they are universally required to display .
To gain great things we must consent to sacrifice small ones . Manners are important enough considered by themselves , but sink
into insignificance when thrown into the balance against duty and
How To Utilize The Powers Of Women. 43
HOW TO UTILIZE THE POWERS OF WOMEN . 43
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 43, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/43/
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