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NOTICES OF BOOKS. ' 57
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The Cities of the Past. [Reprinted from ...
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to settle what shall be the profession , education , or employment of woman . We have not that presumption . What it to we ask is to simp choose ly this for — herself what other her
classes have asked before—leave woman profession species its ri the hts , her rig We ht education to deny prescrib the , and right e for her of any sphere other individual . We portion deny to its prescribe to sphere any , portion its to education any of other the ,
individual each or woman g his . of amount each individual of education is that or any his here rights which . The he sp can here with of each the man highest , of sp
exercis can do e that of his , is powers the act , which perfectl God y , fill desi . The gned hig Mm hest to act do which . All , the that human woman being asks
it throug by liberty h , this m of ovement choice , b is y , liberty to be allowed of action to , prove the onl wh y at mean she s can by which do ; to it prove can She reasonablto
ever be settled how much and what she can do . can y say us : \ I have never fathomed the depths _, of science ; you have scientific taught culture that it
was unwomanly , and have withdrawn from me the means of . quickened I have never equalled b the holding eloquence before of Demosthenes me the crown ; but and you robe have of g never lory
my energy y up , use and . them the gr . atitude Welcome which me I henceforth was to win . brother The tools to now to arena him or and her let who facts can , , your ; ,
not theories , settle my capacity , and therefore my sphere . '"
Notices Of Books. ' 57
NOTICES OF BOOKS . ' 57
The Cities Of The Past. [Reprinted From ...
The Cities of the Past . [ Reprinted from Eraser ' s Magazine . ] By Frances Power Cobbe . Triibner & Co ., 60 , Paternoster Row .
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r th ere . s Livel feelin y and po runs agreeable yet throug in st h y le , an unde chapter rcurren ; thoug t of h the p
gg every large be and from liberal that views mere of textual the authoress ietism which are as can far removed onlmark as y
may communes sacredness in with scrip the ture ancient quotations p . Alone who in unenli Baalbec ht her ened spi rit y
revelationyet rejoiced in God sages ; while , the , Arab _mosque g built Alexandria with the with mutil materials a truer ated , her _apjoreciation ' " from woman revised its ' s ruined " heart liturg of the fanes sympathizes ies probabilities of , suggests advanced with a of deprecation theology H her ypati character a . , and At of
than serene Kingsley and fearless has shewn in her search in his for famous . truth . romance , pictures her
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1864, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031864/page/57/
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