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4 STATISTICS AS TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE
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able We may therefore in Great assume Britain tliat will tlie always number exceed of , female the n s umlb of a er marriage of males
upwards of question the age same , is of , half How age a to are million the we extent , to ) young deal of with women i about the half who half a , b million million i y the i ( very ; t or and rather be ordi the - ,
nance able to of obtain Nature husbands , must necessar ? If we ily are , n to a admit monog the am proposed c socey , doctrine unthat said for " married those who life is do woman not get ' s husband profession s is , " that and " that they all have that failed can be in
. melanchol business" y like anomal any y other , which insolvent has no parallel tradesman in , the it commercial is themselves at all events world for a ,
that 500000 persons should be obliged to educate a profession abilities , , they in cannot which possibl it is known y succeed like beforehand the ! " benchers Would that not of , societ whatever inn y , in of adopt court their
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ex-• and ina then tions refuse , and to otherwise call them qualif to the ying bar because ( as the said benchers , had all along well known ) the number of barristers was already ?
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, define beforehand the particular half million in whose favor the extion should be allowed to operate . It would doubtless be very
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means to sible the to half of set their million apart support any of particular celibates in other ways individuals does . not If the , then as allowance necessaril , it would of y be belong a limited impos ing
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thus of course assumed to say to exi how st on potent the part may of be the y the fair natural sex for distaste marriage which viewed is butunless
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4 Statistics As To The Employment Of The
4 STATISTICS AS TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/4/
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