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Vol.. XI. June \ } 1863. No. 64.
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ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol.. Xi. June \ } 1863. No. 64.
Vol .. XI . June \ } 1863 . No . 64 .
Xxxv.—Who's To Blame? »
XXXV . —WHO ' S TO BLAME ? _»
This Question Is Invariably Asked, Whene...
This question is invariably asked , _whenever anything is amiss either in social or domestic affairswhen any screw is looseor wheel
will not act in the accustomed manner , . It is the same , in public as in private matters _; whose is the fault that the impaired wheel
, or defective screw has not been looked to in time to prevent mishaps or stand-stills ? The answer like the question is almost
always the same . " Everyone , no one , someone . " The some one is rarely foundand every one and no one are terms of such
vague meaning , , that in reality the question ever remains open , and the problem unsolved . The truth is that by little and little
mistakes are made ; _stejD by step , slowly and imperceptibly , society glides into certain customs and habitsthe evils of which are not
, apparent , neither are they felt _tintil a point is reached when by the clogged wheels ( to return to our metaphor ) no longer being
able to act _, the whole machinery is at fault , and then from a hundred voices comes the _question" Who or what has brought
about the leasant state of matters , ? " Nothoweveruntil disagreeable unp effects are painfully ex _} _Derienced , are th , e causes , sought
for or inquired into . It is the same in ethics as in physics , only with this difference , that more anxiety is shown when bodily ailments
are the theme , than when our moral or mental health requires discussion upon or investigation into its state . Philanthropists as
well as physicians and philosophers must follow the same law , and abide by the same rule ; the cause must be found which produces
the evil , before remedial measures can be adopted or reformation or change effected in the manners or habits of the age . Society not
being a collection of lifeless machines , but a community of living men and women to be acted upon through their reason and
their feelings , each individual member should be , by some means or other , induced to think and act for his own personal
inrprovesnent , thereby society would become purer in principle , and wiser in combined action , inasmuch as a multitude can achieve
deeds which are well-nigh impossible to be performed by anyone man or woman . It is the old story of the bundle of sticks : one by one
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/1/
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