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XXXIII—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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. Any Mountainous Prop It Is Social Orti...
Rome , without being powerfully impressed by the moral contrast ., whichreceives no softening-as in the old days of posting " , from
many , new images received , on the road . The steamer and the railroad afford but little food for fresh thought , and the transition
seems sudden and complete . And when up to the last hour of English life , the mind has been perforce absorbed in the working
out of one idea , how wonderful , how impressive it is to find oneself where that idea has no practical moment , where it seems to hinge
upon nothing past , present , or future , or to be clothed in forms with which we as Protestants find it hard to sympathise , and to
await no future developments other than those it has attained in the past .
Yet the life which God appointed has been in full play here for many thousand years . There is ho spot on earth where rival
faiths have so freely contended , where the great drama of existence may be considered to have been so fairly played out . Surely one
who honestly desires to learn truth in social morals may find both the principles and their examples in some age of Home .
Now I will freely confess that one thought has been uppermost in my mind , whenever I have walked among these ruins and inly
contrasted that which I have left and that which I find : Miss Blackwell ' s lectures , and vespers in St . Peter's ; our schools and
mechanics' institutes , with this population of black-haired , blackeyed gossipswho seem to study nothing under heaven ; and the
, publication of such a periodical as the " English Woman's Journal , " with the condition of Italian women , who never give token of
distinctive life . It is in brief this , —that these millions of women must have realised , in the aggregate , the destiny which they were
intended to fulfil , or the wheels of the antique world would have stopped working . What we , in the moral struggle of England and
of America , have to accomplish , is not so much a change in the practical duties , which from , the earliest ages have been well
performed by our sex , but a change in the public estimate of the value of those duties , so that they may be henceforth accomplished in
freedom and under the sanction of better laws .
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« ag »"" Why should we learn f Short Lectures addressed to Schools , By Emily ShirrefP . Parker and Son , West Strand , London .
With all due deference to the conscientious and careful author of : this little work , we cannot help feeling as we lay it down , that she
has fallen into the very common error of supposing that general education in all ways , and to all intents and purposes , supersedes
the necessity of special education , in so far as girls are concerned .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/54/
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