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perieneed than to find in among the treatment * them a of person 1 the insane of a judi , that ciousl nothing y cultivated is more mind rare ; with this fact staringin the
facesystematicallconwhich si and gn yet the leaves , mothers them of and the their rising us families generation a prey to , we a to species one of of the training y worst "
ills that flesh is neir to . We need not ask what woman ' s destination is—nature has written it in characters too clear to _Tbe
the mistaken feeble ; muscular the large development mark her of for the the intellectual high-minded organ . purifier s , and power
the of society kind — of her _ctilture strength which must , _siich be - that an organization of knowledge requires ; yet , , w hide e ref the use then talk
victim of mismanagement in a madhouse , and proudly twist about . Facts and an are enli turn g stubborn htened them as age things we . " will , and to serve rebel our as purpose we may of against the moment them , _,
, they The are grounds neither upon to be which got over Sydney nor set Smith aside claimed . better t education and
the streng and theoretical freer thened development and views supported contained for by woman facts in . this half Let essay a us century , therefore and then ago , first , proceed s examine now to ,
valuable shew how work thoroug entitled hly they " _Indtistrial are confirmed and Social and exemp , position lified of in Women a recent , "
where the need , of sounder education is based upon statistics and other " Their facts . tion , " writes Sydney Smith , ¦ " from all the necesexemp
improvement sary business of of education life , is constant one in of women the motive most . Lawyers to powerful exertion and motives ph if ysicians for have le the ct in their their education professions they a must in a certain degree educate ; you themselves neg
racy b ficulties you y their neg , and lect which commerce jud to gment educate , occur with , because in the literature the mind world they of must it : a they can woman incur never must by responsibility be learn the educated speculative caution . at , But acc all dif u if - - :
if ever tion you ; languid uneducated do not . effectuall Uneducated women y rouse cannot men it . , b may y They education escape have , nothing intellectual it must to remain degrada do ; and for
if never they be come instructed untaug in ht the from school - the of schools events . ¦ of * education * _** , they will the situation of the two
from sexes " We , the and admit different many many striking circumstances striking differences differences in which of in they understanding are placed , ; proceeding but there
is argument not a sing for le making difference the of education this kind of which women does better not afford than a it new is . should
be They broug have ht nothing up to do serious nothing to do but ;— what is that is a trifling reason whtheir why ?—They faculties they are
exposed to characters be purposel to greater of future y and dangers industriousl men ;— ;—is is that that y weakened a a cause reason wh ? y They their y own are to characters form the are
220 Female Education In The Middle Class...
220 FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/4/
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