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OPEN COUNCIL. 355
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To The Editor Of The English Woman's Jou...
morbid women summon their small remaining strength to prostrate and bind alludes every hopeful to the girl who in which has the misfortune all each to cross other their " path ni . " " Also and , A . S .
that ' our way way of going on is negroes something c similar , only infinitel gger , y more says mis- , chievous . " Where these
I confess I am utterly astonished at such a revelation . are women where intellectu ? I should al be culture glad to is know the rule . I and am * not quite the aware exception that social must circles not be ,
taken of jny as dail samp y life les , for which the is rest wholl of the y cast king among dom , and such in a so circle far as , , is the to experience be taken ,
with I am the hardl rest y likel of the y to world meet have these friends female and Brownri relative ggs . s in But all I parts , too , of in Eng common land , and have mixed much with , the gentry in country districts , and with the
merchant did I see , the manufacturing slightest tendency , and professional in families families or circles in to the blame towns their . But cleverest never girls quite for devotion the reverse to intelle system ctual pursued pursuits namel . On the that contrary , I g have women usuall sup y -
seen ; y , any youn posed to possess unusual acquirements , were rather too much admired , or considered as _j _3 rodigies . in she
must Of weak be course prepared if if she a g to irl encounter wants lains of to this follow and to for out overcome she any is unusual onl opp the osition career victim , and of practice she a universal must , be y
law very . Human creatures comp cling so strong , ly to their own precedents , and plant trouble themselves of so firmly on they that have particular attained platform that they to which can hardl after y the be moil expected and
to It move is to any the many further close ages union without between very good man and cause , man shown and . between the past and present that the facility with which , good ideas ultimatel
age , we owe y safel spread , established and the tenacity any reform with the which conservative they take princi root p . le When is our safeguard we have once that y
it to does take not before perish we . can We secure must it , not in therefore our favor grumble ; for the at same the trouble trouble has we fallen have saints and reformers in all
on all the best of mankindon generations . But I must repeat , that so , far as mere intellectual proficiency is concerned which ,
was I have Trul more never likel seen y to correspondent any be injurious opposition than , but otherwise rather " it ill an becomes to admiring the reci women p respect ient deliberatel . paid y to
y , as your says , vex letter and if they hinder can one tell another us of instances , " and I would where fain this ask happens of those ? if who they read reall this y of is at the
of do a think cruel that gossi the ping youthful opposition intellectual from their energy elders ? our girls mercy So far as my individual daily exist experience in the is of limited any value circles , and of jud London ging of
peop ( which le , and however princi exceed , ultimatel ples the as tenderness they y give their and tone more ath to the shown rest b of older the king women dom to , ) , nothing can sympy y mentioned with
peculiar younger respect ones . and Take confidence any one in of this those generation names which ; watch are , if you are so far exhibited privileged the , the most dail motherl y course of care their the owners most sisterl , and you sympath will assuredl . You y will see
their find every houses one , keep among ing . them up a y surrounded correspondence , by young with them people y ; , hel receiving ping y them them in at a
care thous and and sympath ways as y onl extending y the old from can tlie help most the young practical . You assistance will find in this the outward careerinto the most intricate problems of the moral life . You
will find old o , nd , young working harmoniously together : the former looking down with a protecting interest ; the themselves latter looking the up with to an affectionat them e
reverence selves as , useful happy in if their they day feel and within generation—the strength strength to win prove their own - freedomand having won itto lead lives as dignified and pure .
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Open Council. 355
OPEN COUNCIL . 355
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 355, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/67/
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