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    78- THTE .GKNERAIi- EDUCATION OF WOMAN.

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    put which Can this render or question s ht any broadl a stud woman y y , unsuit but not let able to us stud for take y her the a few capacity classical instances and languages de in stiny detail . and . I

    literature , ? oug In the , case of neither sex do I think that they ought to be is there studie that d to iits the them negle for ct of the other one sex things and more unfits important them for ; the but other what ?

    Cut off from the one sidethe narrow ground of professional requirement and what , for reason purposes is of there prescri for , their ption- stud preparing that does or ch not arter hold -deci true phering alike , y

    in the case of either sex ? Whether we assert the claims of Greek of and Latin to other a place languages in education including , because our they own were and the enable main source us to

    trace so the many derivation of other , words , and the origin , of forms of constructionof modes of thought , of manners , and customs ; to

    understand other casual ground , quotations usually urged ; or because in favor they of in cultivate classical the other taste instruction Then ; or on again , any all

    as arguments to Mathematics are as _> valid than in which the one , apart case from as its practical . application , , , there can be no better training to close attention , accurate and convalueand this

    tinuous thought . Logic , again , is of peculiar ; on point months I , can during speak one with period the of force my in of life personal , I taug experience ht and log I ic _inay to . a For trul class some of

    it that about so , while twent much teaching y so ladies as then is residing at , thoug all times h Liverpool the a lessons pleasure , came , I at never the y found close say much attention and

    not apprehension a of progress a at laborious all believe , that , such day that my . dili ladies expectations There gence in w in ere Liverpool preparing so were , as far exercises a class surpassed , are , and superior ; yet so quick rap I do to id

    ladies in London , Birmingham , or Manchester . most Moral useful Philosop and befitting hy , again for , and woman even ' s pursuit Metaph . ysics I am , I anxious believe not to be to

    rest or other the argument of these sudies on cases ; the of question a woman seems ' s -actual to me superiority quite independent in one has dondo

    of again such , let aid me ; here but remind still , as you what , that woman if we can point e wom to Mrs an . may Somerville or Miss Herschel in mathematical or astronomical science , or in classicsin h

    to Mrs . Carter or Madame Dacier , even metapysics the we have perception Lady M of ary an Shep eternal herd universe , whose , works have p on laced causation her , in , the and esti on

    p m h ation ysicians of . no As mean solit jud ary ge wonders their , in the very to is be to first gazed rank at and of from Eng to herald lish afar , meta such the

    cases are of little value ; use justify admission of woman into fields of thought , from which she has been hitherto debarredand to assert , in tlieir own persons , the dignity of

    their sex . Why , again , should women not be taught the laws of tlieir organisationthe laws on which health depends , and

    own , whichfor others' sake , not less than their own ,. it is their solemn ,

    78- Thte .Gkneraii- Education Of Woman.

    78- _THTE . GKNERAIi- EDUCATION OF WOMAN .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 78, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/6/