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SCIENCE FOR WOMEN. 151
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One Of The Chief Points Of Good Husbandr...
and sisters over fancy-work and useless accomplishments liad been dedicated to researches among- the denizens of native woods and
fields , they would scan the growth of a stranger clime with other and more penetrating glance . How many rich gums and useful
resins may be dropping from the trees of our far-off settlements , unnoticed as the tears of paupers , because only seen by such as do
not perhaps even know a gum from a resin ; and milk and honey balsamic may be flowing leavesd in their of sap , healing hue lie for hidden nations in their borne bark in their and
this be all unguessed , yes at by gorgeous those who are dwelling in their midst , , because their untutored eyes have never learnt to look for them . A
very groups elementary into which knowled the vegetable ge of the race leading are features divided be of , and those of famil their in y
various characteristic properties , _would suffice to some guide forming an acquaintance with a new Flora and Fauna , and be some indication as to what might be expected or sought for among them _;
would lead the stranger to seek new kinds of food boldly among the attention _Cruciferse to the , and more of _spiirges cautiously the amon leave g Solanums s of rosaceou ; would s and draw the
fibres of urticaceous sap plants ; and , thus perhaps find rivals in British colonies for the hemp of Hussia , tlie tea of China , or the caoutchouc
of South America . And even if , after all , women could effect but little tors as Life princi is pals too , short how much and le would arning be too in their long power for it as ever co-opera to be
-. , , desirable that intellects of lofty order should rely _uj _3 on their own unaided exertions to accomplish every part of the work they
underwh lesser take ich , if minds they it "be al to possibl on their e can e agency to erform transfer , and The what reserve b may enefit for be s the of as well such higher executed division that onl b of y y
genius labour in is literature recognised do in not p almost disdain . every to pursuit use the . abilities Men of of the others highest in
• collecting would not or waste assorting his time their in first chipj materials ) ing a sh ; ap in eless art a block Michael of Angelo marble
masters into not Lyells be form av proud ? , ail or Why themselves a to , Rap then roug hael , h- should hew of prepar the the not e efforts ston liis our e own , Play of or liumble colo fairs lay urs the , and ; laborers palette and Lindleys who , for in would , their such and
peculiar themselves , fields for of the toil dignit , and y of wh being y should their not fellow women -workers strive in to however qualify
subordinate a capacity ? Let it be remembered what great results fe have mal grown e acuteness out of while the Madam seeming e G ly alv trifling ani was circumstance watching her observed husband b ' y s _,
hav experiments e such opportunities ; and though as strangers this , and dwelling could not - apart hope would to render not Ilerschel indeed such important aid Hevelins derived from his wifeor
from his sister , as yet a very limited amount of intercourse , might of suffice the to country elicit great l assistance bod , of if intelli there gent were scattered womentrained over all parts from
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Science For Women. 151
SCIENCE FOR WOMEN . 151
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1862, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051862/page/7/
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