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BIANCA MELESI MO JOIST. 91
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About This Time Madame Mojon Lost Her Mo...
a decided leaning to agricultural life , 'and-lie - prepared-for-it by the usual mechanical 'and chemical studies . As soon as her boys had
left her to pursuer their special training * , and Madame Mojon found herself released from her maternal duties , she transferred her activity
to the poor , to her friends , and to the diffusion of knowledge . ( C No laudable enterprise was set on foot" her biographer " but she
came to it with ; money in her hand , , and says encouragement on , her lips . If a misfortune befel a friendshe instantly appeared . If a book
came out'favorable to human , progress , she instantly bought it . " With extraordinary gifts—with incessant activity , assiduous , and
successful—if any woman might demand an enlargement of " here" surely Madame Mojon might indulge that aspiration .
But sp she , does not seem to have _contemjDlated any further extension of female activity but such as she had herself carried out , when , as
a young aristocratic lady , she had desired to pursue the career of a professional artist . Madame Mojon did not regard the " woman
movement" with favor , at least not up to its furthest modern limit . Writing to Madame Fulvia Verrishe says" What I understand by
, , the emancipation- of woman , is that she shall be released from her state of perpetual minority . I would have her equal to man , _havings
as he has , a serious but _Yexy different mission . In a word , she should . be the woman Madame Necker depicts . To deserve such an
emancipation , she must not seek to go out of her own sphere . She need not take part in the affairs of _government , cause herself to be
nominated for the House of Deputies , as certain mad people have claimed in their writings ; but she should be the tutelary angel of
the family : there her beneficent influence should be exercised . As a means of succeeding in the fulfilment of her duties , the very
highest cultivation of her mind , far from doing her any harm , would be of the" greatest service to her . It is half knowing things
, and extravagant vanity , which spoils equally men and women—never true and profound science . " And again , in relation to an article
in IS JEncyclopedie Nouvelle _, she says , " After all we are the mothers of the human race , ( no one can deny that , ) and who does not know the
influence of the mother over the child ? If we act out our ideas , the powerful coming * generation of all emp will ires feel . The it . The important empire thing of ideas 1 is to is set the these most
ideas into the heads and hearts of children ; afterwards they germinate in their lives . ObserveI say all this in the evangelical
sense . I am not revolutionary . , I am too distrustful of myself to desire to overturn the world according to my notions .
" Alas for the beautiful period" of youth , when we doubted nothing *! Not that I deploredear Fulviaa ripe age : nocertainly
not . If I am now less gay , , I have more , serenity ; if , I am less activesolitude does not oppress me . I never suffer ennui ; even
when , I am doing nothing , I feel myself alive . Nature has entertainments for me unknown to my youth . The observation of
anything that concerns mankind makes me reflect . I am
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Bianca Melesi Mo Joist. 91
BIANCA MELESI MO JOIST . 91
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 91, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/19/
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