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THEIR USES AND SHORTCOMINGS. 27
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to tion almshouses the provide Court of the of shelter and Chancery Charit ive for y , way Commissioners pensions out farers of the , to and proceeds old and subsequentl men of with and land the y women left used sanction ori to . ginall build This of y
school is to be exclusivel g y for boys . The evil , therefore , is not exclusive funds imaginary , orig . use inall A of y left precedent men for the This equal has precedent been benefi established t may of men possibl and y for women be generall _diverting , to the y
. followed if _vigoroiis efforts are not made to attract attention to the subj But ect . setting aside ... all considerations of justice and humanityit
, obtaining may be shown a good that education this exclusion is disadvantageous of women to from the communit the mean y s at of
• tradesmen large . A great and inconveniences diversity of reli are gious consequentl opinions y found prevails to arise among at
, very schools frequentl on the y subj evaded ect of reli ( at gious private instruction day schools . These at least difficulties ) by the are
bered selve simple s th received expedien at the parents no t of reli g , iving and ious more none instruction especiall at all . from y the Now the mothers when same it , have is cause remem them the - -
evil becomes serious . Doub g tless many of the children attend Sunday , instruction schools , or thus accompany received their can parents onlbe to of church a sli or chapel ht nature , but and the very g
y , is apt to be forgotten during the week . running altogether Thus into two irreli dangers gious kind , and arise of secondl fanaticism : first y of of the and the more rel children igious seriousl extravagance growing y inclined up
from , having no every real knowledge to guide them . But serious as i & the evil with regard to men , with regard to children women it is far worse falls ,
because the home religious teaching of the generally to the mother ' s lot . It is often said that the moral feeling of the smaller trading
use classes false has wei reached hts and a even very put low unwholesome point ; that they adulterations not unfrequentl into the y
food they sell g ; the women , too , are' notoriously harsh mistresses towards their maid-servants
. Now may not this general low tone of feeling be fairly ascribed to the entire absenceor miserable nature of the religious
instrucmothers tion received to fail by in the impressing , girls , which on their causes children them when as strong they ly become as they
ought the duty of behaving honestly towards all , and of showing the kindness If class this in to be their whi not ch the dependents moral cause , feeling it ? is at is least at the a singular lowest ebb coincidence , is also th th at at
which These receives moral the deficiencies least reli hav gious e been instruction perceived . by the clergywho
, in order to remedy the evil are now making great exertions to get
up more and more good schools for boys ; but I do not believe they
Their Uses And Shortcomings. 27
THEIR USES AND _SHORTCOMINGS . 27
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 27, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/27/
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