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SCIENCE FOR WOMEN. 155
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imprints now transient that for moods are us any permanent thing yet how but records slow fleeting hav of , e and Ibeen life the and those , g nature lance who of in wer a their e sunbeam wont most to
call themselves votaries ; of Apollo , to celebrate the discovery of this his newly-manifested power , this fresh attribute of the Master of
ihe Muses , — What laureate lay
Hath sung the triumphs of th' actinic ray ? And can the lately deciphered autobiography of the subtle earth , Electric written
fluid in sacred ; the hi mysterious eroglyphics mi upon ght of her Ozone own , heart tremendous ; can the invisible arbiter of health and disease : the weird spells of Galvanismmocking * life
with the motions of the dead : can all these avail little , or nothing to enrich the utterance of the poet and the orator—supply so few
fresh and beauty images ? to Not stir always men's shall slugg the ish march hearts of with Science thoug be hts thus of mute _power !
her The triump day must hal come car and when clasped strains in of the divinest arms of song Poesy shall they float shall around rise
together , ever and ; ever , upward , towards the eternal , throne of their common parent . But this can never be till her now abstruse facts
shall have become common things , and her terms familiar as household and bosoms words , for of men then as onl to y be can available they so material come home for to the the poet business . The
raw juices eliminated by rootlets from the earth , must first be transmitted through every branch and twig , even to the extremest
spray , and exposed to light and air at the broad surface of every le crowning afy lung , lory ere they its can perfected become flower fit aliment and so to must nourish knowled the p ge lant be ' s
with universall our y common g diffused , , atmosp enter here into , every before ; one it ' s can experience be ripened , and in ming imag do not le i-
nation's sunshine into nutriment for our higher nature . We reserved say , that for as man woman has to learnt raref to it condense into poetry science ; thoug into h the philosop closer h affinit y , it is y
y with tion of the analog spiritual iesand of the her aesthetic finer organization tone of her , mind her intuitive ever looking percep out
for the beautiful , all eminently fit her to detect the Divine element in form of , corporeityand herself largely to draw it forth and
every , make not it be visible destined to all to eyes take . in But directl whatever y educing shar the e women brilliant may hues or may
throug of the h iris the from prism the of p imag lain ination light , of there scientific can be truth no question in its passing of those the
sweetest to important whom meed part he look of they praise s for must . his ever Who most p can lay sati as doubt sf the ying that poet _aj ) ' preciation s the audience first , song , and as th at
Science For Women. 155
SCIENCE FOR WOMEN . 155
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/11/
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