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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 345
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A. Letter To Lord John Jtussell. By Mrs....
that opinion has suggestions indeed been which so rapid in , these even within were the last put three forth or hesitating four years l ,
being because many overborne in opposition by such to , established prejudices ; prejudices the pages tide , are public no longer feeling in is danger flowing of y
with them , not against them _; and many facts , then strange and startling , do creed have good . become It has familiar been ive represented to the public to t me to mind , tha , — t - doub a their new ting result edit and ion a strugg part ght of ling at the this public iri time ts
b extent y showing , been , feeling that an g tici certain vinced pated encouragemen b que and yourself sti answered ons and many ; certain L and ord it b objections is L because ord have of the , t candid o ( who a sp cer allu t and ain - ,
o generous ded thers especiall that I y to e t these ure to Essays y lace , this ) b , y new Lord edition Shaftesbury , y under Broug , the Lord Carlisle , ices of , and the p ausp
_president Society , for , I the presume Promotion to address of Social some Science prefatory ; while observations to your on Lordshi the present p , as
of condi " It tion inion is is and true in requirements all , that things since that these of the concern Lecture women us s of were is Eng more first land than published . satisfactory , the progress The
op . . leg the isla protection ture of this of her country property has , gran and ted a revision two measures of the conjugal of justice and to women divorce ,
wi ni t laws ha t thou y t . and t E the very happ sanc iness woman tity of — woman of at permanence least honorable ; bu every t we redress of refine also the know d marriage for and dishonorable how thoug bond terrible htful depends woman it is to . — the be knows There di left gpossibility wrong
is yet room any for amendment in regard to the machinery by which these retical cent enactments that it is are if our carried _Government out , which and our indeed courts is so of imperfec justice t had and unprac ired
together is working to well render as . If them I have nugat , ory notwithstanding ; but the princi , lef ple t my has observations been admi consp tted on , and the
moral former rela sta tions te of of the the two w , and sexes on to the stand manner as first in written which it it has is because acted on these the remarks are applicable at this present , moment to the social , consequences of
mo these tive laws s of , as tion wel l as their to some effect other s still prejudices vail . A which , t t houg stem h of disowned moral an as d bo lega th l wrong law l and eave , custom s its traces and in its socie evils pre ty re l ong ts are aft er eradica it has y ted been onl b lishe slow d y y
that cases degrees tlie is y . the immediate On least the of whole the practical , benefits , it may alleviation conferred be said , in . of reference The certain discussions hardshi to these ps which l egal in attended changes dividual , of
and these sensi measures tive women , in and ; made t some Parliamen of us t , almost often ga wish ve exquisi to go on te p § nduring ain to refi any ned - broug pain thing laces is — ht past everything evils forward and which the by — good sensible rather had remains never than men such yet . on Throug found discussions both h expression sides the , v should arious light were was take fact dragged let and place in argumen ; on bu out t dark the of ts
p unclean socia tone l h commu as ; holes since ni and per t v has shaken aded been pub and the lic ventilated better opinion for ; and . these A more discussions t women health onl . y , y , but more the hopefu whole l y
" JVo injured wives or suffering children are ever benefited hy an appeal to strikes the The public absolute into ? — silent such tone acquiescence is of the this fiat assertion recentl a timid y , pronounced as unreflecting if it were by an some mind influential indisputable : but is periodica this truth true l ? . ,
Your Lordship ' s long experience as a statesman must have proved to you that certainl it is y an altogether injured false wife iness . , who It b may has be suffered true al as to all regards the she can individual be made The cases to wretched . suffer Too ,
is child not who restored has been to happ sacrificed y in ' bod an app and e soul bthe public mistakes ' and lects , health y b y to the neg
Public of society sympath , is not y made in the good one case , , public y , or indi happy gnation , y ' in an the appeal other , cannot public heal . ,
Notices Of Books. 345
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 345
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/57/
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