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202 " THE REVIEWER REVIEWED.
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. . The ' Saturday Review' Has Addressed...
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things labour of Political . " We Our Economy should contemporary have : women thoug triump , he ht thinks that hs ove , the can r our name know assume of nothing Mrs d i . gnorance _Marcet of such ,
princi who b p . y les her of writings that science so , abl whil y instructed e Sir fi Robert young the Peel wicked peop , with le battle in all the his of
taxed influence food , and and energy prohibitory , and talent duties , was , mig ghting ht have occurred to our we should have thought that he might have remembered
censor : how Miss Martineau laboured to impress upon the people the duties of self-reliance and prudence in marriages , at a time when the great derided ball classes
truths of political economy were scorned and y to of be Eng even lish state mentioned smen , and in were a journal thoug so ht respectable too " low " and as the revolutionary * Saturday
Review . ' But the Reviewer has evidently in his mind ' s eye a settled type of womanhood , which , like the English " innumerabl milord" in the brai les n
of the French dramatist , is not to be effaced by e examp of its falsity . meet critic the
We "willhoweverventure to our even upon , , told forbidden bthis ground cold comforter of political " is economy a fixed quantity . " Emp , " loym and ent , therefore , " we are , if
workmen of women men y 's come wages must into be . We men ' will s occupations b , grant workwomen it : the but . , result at least must , what for be an a is lowerin extreme lost to g gained Suppose ,
y mi shillings case ht , that possibl and the of bring earnings men them two of pounds to women such , per a level before week that ; the the the change influx two pounds of were women ixve _&^ ve
shillings a result g whi , would ch y oug be ht shared to alarm equall a p y hilanthrop among them would ist . ? Well We there repudiate , is have even been thi all s
would anything claim upon it have necessaril men been ' s gallantry y certain just or to : desirable promote but we good ask in the morals previous or increase inequality the ?
, two sum sexes of human had been happiness always ? equal Let us , would imagine our that contemporary the earnings desire of the to extend
establish the unequal division ? If so , let him by all means his women other princi portion out ples of of emp further our loyment fellow . If , - it it citizen must be well s be for to advisable the maintain same to purpose wages incapacitate . by Wh keep y some ing not
declare all men of more than fifty too old for work ? Why not banish from the market all dark , or all fair men ; all Whigs or all not
adop Tories t any ; all arbitrary Peelite princi or all ple Radical of exclusion gentlemen , since ? it In would fact , be wh so if y easy
to meet the fair man , or the Whig , or the Peelite gentlemen , they were so unreasonable as to fret under their inaction , with the assurance that the amount of work is " a fixed quantity , " and that
if they come into the market , the dark man , or the Tory , or the
202 " The Reviewer Reviewed.
202 " THE REVIEWER REVIEWED .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1858, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051858/page/58/
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