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WOMEN AND COMMERCE. 291
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* The October Follo , In Sent Wing To La...
for womenthe nature of the instruction which should be given to day them in these , and , terms upon this : ' _¦ When other question Political , worded Economy in is the taug order ht to of men the ,
. ' ought it to be taught to women ? " with a shade of irony and of criticism cast on the public instruction of France , for being so
backward in this respect . With regard to teaching women Political Economy , all the
_mem-* bers who spoke pronounced themselves in favor of the views enunciated in the first place hy M . Joseph Garnier . Whatever , said this
member , may be the part of woman in the acquisition of income , ( which art constitutes the crematistike of Aristotle ) upon her
, devolves more particularly the administration of income ( which art constitutes the oiconomia of the same philosopher . ) She is in all
things the adviser of the family , of the husband and children , and it would be a great individual and social benefit if she were early
initiated in the first principles of that branch of moral philosophy which treats of the natural organization of society , its wants , the
forces and means which it employs to satisfy them ; which establishes a great number of notions , useful , if not indispensable to be
known , and which dissipates the popular prejudices with regard to
laborpropertitalmachinerymoneypriceswagescommerce , , credit , y consump , cap tion , , taxes , population , , , destitution , , charity , , associationthe duties of society and of governments , and all
which relates , to the condition , well-being , and rights of the different classes of the population . The understanding of women possesses
as much aptitude for these subjects as that of men . M . Garnier cited the names of the late Mrs . Marcetwho has enriched science
with a good elementary book tinder the form , of conversations ; of Miss Harriet Martineau , who has elucidated in an original manner
several fundamental truths in her tales ; of Madame Meynieu , whose dialothe history of pauperismand other works ,
show an understandin gues upon g as solid as it is elevated ; , of Madame Roger , one of the principal contributors to the _Noicvel Economiste _,
published by M . Pascal Duprat , at Geneva , whose fine appreciation handj and just women criticisms , like men are , remarkable and even to a in still all greater respects degree . On , the are which liable other
to furnishes be led int one o error reason by the the more sop for hisms teaching of eccentric them , doctrines as a matter , of social MM interest Wolowski , the princi Dunoyer pal notions Hornand of a Benard true social durin economy g the . course
. ,, , , , of the evening , expressed emphatically their opinions to the same effect . They were not contested by a single member .
With regard to commercial education , some divergences arose , owing t'o the several points of viewdifferentbut not opposedfrom
, , , which the members viewed woman ' s duties and rational occupations .
M . Wolowskia member of the Institution , considering that social progress consists _, in woman remaining more and more in the ¦ y bosom 2
Women And Commerce. 291
WOMEN AND COMMERCE . 291
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/3/
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