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218 woman's work in sanitary reform.
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" I Conclude That All Our Endowments For...
comprehensive principally to man mind , the to latter devise princi schemes pally to for woman draining . 1 It and is for cleansing _man's "
of our life towns within , for improving the reach dwellings of alland , and it for is p for lacing his the strong necessaries hand to ;
execute these schemes . It is for him to discover the laws of health , and to teach and lthem where he can . It is for womanin her
functions of mother app housewife y and teacherto effect those urgentl , y needed changes in infant , management , domestic , economyeducation ?
could and the never general attain habits to its destined of her own state , sex of , bodil without y perfection which , humanity , though
to all teach injurious and external apply the circumstances laws of health -were in her changed own provinces . It is , for where her
man cannot act . Most of us are at present unable to perform our part in the work
part upon of sanitary of which female reform that schooling work , because , thoug is based of h a our . knowled Sanitary ignorance ge in science of this it of matter is the rarel of great the y it greatest forms is truths a
to utility l and the importance defects of to earl every education one . But There are many , excellent easy suppy y , may books gain from sufficient which any knowled woman ge of of ordinary sanitary culture science and to intelli bring genc it to e ,
teacher charitie bear Woman very s , of usefull ' " s Christianity beg work in y upon at in home should her sanitary , " own and be practice there reform a living beg and should illustration in with on that , herself like of of others the . all As truths . other the
he inculcates , so should the woman who attempts to lead others to obey the laws of health , be herself an example of constant obedience need
to them . This seems so very obvious a truth as hardly to working mention ; for but the , strange improvement to say of , it the is health one which of others not do a few not who seem are to
¦ understand . Obedience to the laws of health sometimes involves requires great self an -denial amount and of disloyalt determination y to Queen and moral Fashion thus courage , and , which therefore not too ,
onl many The y noble injure of us efforts others do not now by possess examp being . le made , "Whenever but for also our greatl we elevation y wrong disobey will ourselves never , we be .
, more than partially successful while , by disobedience to the laws of health , we wantonly waste our life-powers . There is much just
ourselves trifling complain compared t about We are with our justl political the ph striving ysical and disabilities to legal obtain disabilities which the same we , but inflict industrial they upon are
advantages . as man , yet we y continue enervating habits which render us physically incapable of successful competition with him . " While life
striving to improve the external conditions of life , we waste itself , forgetful that abstract ' rights' have but a nominal value
when not practically available . " To detail all the violations of the . laws of health which are
committed in English households , merely through' the ignorance and
218 Woman's Work In Sanitary Reform.
218 woman ' s work in sanitary reform .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1859, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061859/page/2/
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