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80 THE GENERAL EI>UCATIOK OE WOMAN.
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fairness "would deny entitled woman to ' s do _fitness , so long for * as any woman such inquiries is admitted . This to possess I ana in a with
moral Hitherto and intellectual , I have argued nature solel substantiall y on the y hi the gh same absolute that ground her man nature . that is end to herself well man
intellectual woman an moraland iritual as isfor itself as and ; in itself , worthy of , all culture , and at , sp capable and , , needful of all culture ; utterly
, once repudiating to suit his capricious the right tastes of man . to But fashion , even le or relativel is repress not y considered , less or pervert involved , even woman . i If her relations to manthe same princi
woman is to he man , 's helpmate in p any worthy sense , then she must "be partaker of his higher tastes , and all sympathise sides from in each his hi to ghest the
must other aspirations _Tbe ; what for . evil does Influence . And not elevate o is bser radiated ve must these on depress are not , times what when is not man for stands good , , the _woildthe
great still . universit Though y school in which and all college men must may lag graduate Who behind does , with not or without _' see — the honorsmoves onward swiftland surely .
vast advanc , e of every succeedin y g generation in extent of knowledge and depth of thought ? The xaan of moderate would educational have standing ade
scientific now needs or to literary know reputation many times some more half than century moves ago . less If m , slowl then a , the while rel man ation advances between , th woman em is stands not the still same , or even as before ; the distance y ,
_lengthens into misunderstandings the soul , the or disp worse , arit petty y indifference increases strifes and . , Want which jealousies freezes of , sympath which its genial eat y , , alienation like currents rust , ,
with a thawless ; frost , are sure results . As sister , daughter , wife , be but not especiall the y housekeeper in the last , or capacity seamstress , is it needful or cook that or woman drawing should -room
ornament , , but truly the , companion , the , second- , self , of man . In the Artist " ' Siebenkas Married Life " of " of Richter _Scheffer , or we not find less most beautifull affectingl y y delineated in " The
vated the miseries , s and asp of iring ill-assorted man , and marri the age carebound , , between Lennette , thrift the y meditative , the ornamental wife of , culti , Sie but - - unintellectualunsympathising woman . ,
, benkas , is thus presented : — " Little disputes before marriage are great blow ke ones en and after cold it ; as in northerl winter . y winds The , which h are breeze warm from in summer married , zepyr
lungs resembles the zephyr in Homer , about the cutting cold of which authoress whole of the her of poet the profane sings cookery library so -book much consisted and . her _* husband of * one pair * whose of _** works authors * , how , T the he
-, evershe never read . She paid the tribute of the greatest admiration , He to his could essays never , but in never spire looked her with into a them lyrical . enthusiasm * . * of else love * She , in *
which could count she could the strokes forget heaven of the and town earth cjock , and between everything his ' kisses . , and .
80 The General Ei>Ucatiok Oe Woman.
80 THE _GENERAL EI > UCATIOK _OE WOMAN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1860, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041860/page/8/
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